* identical inputs: This sounds like it ought to be a problem here, since the goals of this class
   * include testing that {@code equals()} is reflexive and is tolerant of {@code null}. However,
   * there's no problem. The reason: {@link EqualsTester} tests {@code null} and identical inputs
   * directly against {@code equals()} rather than through the {@code Equivalence}.
   */
  private final Equivalence<? super T> equivalence;

   *     arguments
   */
  boolean apply(@ParametricNullness T input);

  /**
   * Indicates whether another object is equal to this predicate.
   *
   * <p>Most implementations will have no reason to override the behavior of {@link Object#equals}.
   * However, an implementation may also choose to return {@code true} whenever {@code object} is a

  }

  /**
   * Just like fail(reason), but additionally recording (using threadRecordFailure) any
   * AssertionFailedError thrown, so that the current testcase will fail.
   */
  public void threadFail(String reason) {
    try {
      fail(reason);
    } catch (AssertionFailedError t) {
      threadRecordFailure(t);
      fail(reason);
    }
  }

  /**

    tester.testConstructors(PatternFilenameFilter.class, Visibility.PACKAGE);
    tester.testStaticMethods(PatternFilenameFilter.class, Visibility.PACKAGE); // currently none

    // The reason that we skip this method is discussed in a comment on the method.
    tester.ignore(PatternFilenameFilter.class.getMethod("accept", File.class, String.class));

   * not fail a test when an exception is thrown from one of its {@link TearDown} instances, but
   * this is subject to change. Also, {@code junit4.TearDownTestCase} will.
   *
   * @throws Exception for any reason. {@code TearDownTestCase} ensures that any exception thrown
   *     will not interfere with other TearDown operations.
   */
  void tearDown() throws Exception;

    }
  }

  // If you have a FinalizableReferenceQueue that is a static field of one of the classes of your
  // app (like the FrqUser class above), then the app's ClassLoader will never be gc'd. The reason
  // is that we attempt to run a thread in a separate ClassLoader that will detect when the FRQ
  // is no longer referenced, meaning that the app's ClassLoader has been gc'd, and when that

      /*
       * The following static final fields exist for performance reasons.
       *
       * In UnsignedBytesBenchmark, accessing the following objects via static final fields is the
       * fastest (more than twice as fast as the Java implementation, vs ~1.5x with non-final static
       * fields, on x86_32) under the Hotspot server compiler. The reason is obviously that the
       * non-final fields need to be reloaded inside the loop.

    for (StandardSystemProperty property : StandardSystemProperty.values()) {
      // Even though the contract in System.getProperties() specifies that a value will exist for
      // all of the listed keys, for some reason the "java.compiler" key returns null in some JVMs.
      if (property == JAVA_COMPILER) {
        continue;
      }
      // Removed in Java 9:

   */
  @Override
  protected void expectContents(Collection<E> expectedCollection) {
    List<E> expectedList = Helpers.copyToList(expectedCollection);
    // Avoid expectEquals() here to delay reason manufacture until necessary.
    if (getList().size() != expectedList.size()) {
      fail("size mismatch: " + reportContext(expectedList));
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < expectedList.size(); i++) {

   * not fail a test when an exception is thrown from one of its {@link TearDown} instances, but
   * this is subject to change. Also, {@code junit4.TearDownTestCase} will.
   *
   * @throws Exception for any reason. {@code TearDownTestCase} ensures that any exception thrown
   *     will not interfere with other TearDown operations.
   */
  void tearDown() throws Exception;