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package com.thealgorithms.slidingwindow;
/**
* The Sliding Window algorithm is used to find the minimum sum of a subarray
* of a fixed size k within a given array.
*
* <p>
* Worst-case performance O(n)
* Best-case performance O(n)
* Average performance O(n)
* Worst-case space complexity O(1)
*
* This class provides a static method to find the minimum sum of a subarray
* with a specified length k.
*
* @author Rashi Dashore (https://github.com/rashi07dashore)
*/
public final class MinSumKSizeSubarray {

// Prevent instantiation
private MinSumKSizeSubarray() {
}

/**
* This method finds the minimum sum of a subarray of a given size k.
*
* @param arr is the input array where the minimum sum needs to be found
* @param k is the size of the subarray
* @return the minimum sum of the subarray of size k
*/
public static int minSumKSizeSubarray(int[] arr, int k) {
if (arr.length < k) {
return -1; // Edge case: not enough elements
}

int minSum;
int windowSum = 0;

// Calculate the sum of the first window
for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
windowSum += arr[i];
}
minSum = windowSum;

// Slide the window across the array
for (int i = k; i < arr.length; i++) {
windowSum += arr[i] - arr[i - k];
minSum = Math.min(minSum, windowSum);
}
return minSum;
}
}