For test purposes, I’ll start with maze generator. Here, you can find a basic maze generator with placement of Finish/Start points on the matrix of 16×16 written by John Dumas.

In case you get error about about equalsIC() method in the code about strlen utilization – include cstring library and follow the comments to compile the code for the maze output. The code gives you an ability of tracing different variations of path finding as well, thus it’ll be a nice place to start with basic path-finding techniques.