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+# Copyright (c) 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Module defining AbstractMeasurer class."""
+
+from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
+
+from .measurement_result import MeasurementResult as Result
+
+
+class AbstractMeasurer(metaclass=ABCMeta):
+    """Abstract class defining common API for trial measurement providers.
+
+    The original use of this class was in the realm of
+    RFC 2544 Throughput search, which explains the teminology
+    related to networks, frames, packets, offered load, forwarding rate
+    and similar.
+
+    But the same logic can be used in higher level networking scenarios
+    (e.g. https requests) or even outside networking (database transactions).
+
+    The current code uses language from packet forwarding,
+    docstring sometimes mention transactions as an alternative view.
+    """
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def measure(self, intended_duration: float, intended_load: float) -> Result:
+        """Perform trial measurement and return the result.
+
+        It is assumed the measurer got already configured with anything else
+        needed to perform the measurement (e.g. traffic profile
+        or transaction limit).
+
+        Duration and load are the only values expected to vary
+        during the search.
+
+        :param intended_duration: Intended trial duration [s].
+        :param intended_load: Intended rate of transactions (packets) [tps].
+            It is a per-port rate, e.g. uni-directional for SUTs
+            with two ports.
+        :type intended_duration: float
+        :type intended_load: float
+        :returns: Structure detailing the result of the measurement.
+        :rtype: measurement_result.MeasurementResult
+        """