diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/pedrovgs/sortingalgorithm/SortingAlgorithm.java b/src/main/java/com/github/pedrovgs/sortingalgorithm/SortingAlgorithm.java
index a542538f..82f2e105 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/pedrovgs/sortingalgorithm/SortingAlgorithm.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/pedrovgs/sortingalgorithm/SortingAlgorithm.java
@@ -20,7 +20,19 @@
  *
  * @author Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez.
  */
-public interface SortingAlgorithm {
+public abstract class SortingAlgorithm {
 
-  void sort(int[] numbers);
+  public abstract void sort(int[] numbers);
+
+  protected void swap(int[] numbers, int i, int j) {
+    int temp = numbers[i];
+    numbers[i] = numbers[j];
+    numbers[j] = temp;
+  }
+
+  protected void validateInput(int[] numbers) {
+    if (numbers == null) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("You can't pass a null instance as parameter.");
+    }
+  }
 }