Validate Rail Fence cipher rail counts - #110
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Motivation
encodeanddecoderespect the kata precondition that rails >= 2 and provide regression coverage for invalid inputs.Description
validateRailCount(int)helper that throwsIllegalArgumentExceptionwhen the rail count is less than 2 and invoked it from bothencodeanddecodeinsrc/main/java/kyu3/RailFenceCipher.java.nvalues.shouldRejectInvalidRailCountsandinvalidRailCountstest data tosrc/test/java/kyu3/RailFenceCipherTest.javaand importedassertThrowsto verify negative, zero, and single-rail inputs are rejected.Testing
mvn -q -Dtest=RailFenceCipherTest testand the new tests passed.mvn -q verifyand the build completed successfully including test and verification phases.RailFenceCipherTestcontinue to pass after the changes.Codex Task