fail();
    } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException expected) {
    }
  }

  /*
   * Whenever an implementation uses `instanceof` on a parameter instance, the test has to know that
   * (so much for "black box") and try instances that both do and don't pass the check. The "don't"
   * half of that is more awkward to arrange...
   */
  private static <T> Iterable<T> iterable(final Collection<T> collection) {

trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game
of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious
child was very fond of pretending to be two people.  `But it's no
use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people!  Why,
there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable
person!'

  Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under

      if (object instanceof AsList) {
        AsList that = (AsList) object;
        return this.parent.equals(that.parent);
      }
      // We could delegate to super now but it would still box too much
      if (!(object instanceof List)) {
        return false;
      }
      List<?> that = (List<?>) object;
      if (this.size() != that.size()) {
        return false;
      }

  // "Basher tests", where we throw a bunch of stuff at a LoadingCache and check basic invariants.

  /**
   * This is a less carefully-controlled version of {@link #testRemovalNotification_clear} - this is
   * a black-box test that tries to create lots of different thread-interleavings, and asserts that
   * each computation is affected by a call to {@code clear()} (and therefore gets passed to the

    }

    try {
      FluentIterable.from(Lists.newArrayList("a", "b", "c")).get(3);
      fail();
    } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException expected) {
    }
  }

  /*
   * Full and proper black-box testing of a Stream-returning method is extremely involved, and is
   * overkill when nearly all Streams are produced using well-tested JDK calls. So, we cheat and
   * just test that the toArray() contents are as expected.
   */