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+package com.thealgorithms.strings;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import java.util.*;
+
+public class WordLadderTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWordLadder() {
+        String words1[] = { "hot", "dot", "dog", "lot", "log", "cog" };
+        assertEquals(5, WordLadder.ladderLength("hit", "cog", Arrays.asList(words1)));
+        String words2[] = { "hot", "dot", "dog", "lot", "log" };
+        assertEquals(0, WordLadder.ladderLength("hit", "cog", Arrays.asList(words2)));
+     }
+}