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Pull Request Review

Reviewing PR #3368 that fixes issue #3367 regarding custom comparers in IsEquivalentToAssertion.

Review Checklist:

  • Read project guidelines and understand context
  • Analyze main implementation changes
  • Review test coverage and quality
  • Evaluate public API changes
  • Assess code quality, performance, and security
  • Provide comprehensive feedback

📋 Review Summary

This PR implements a fix for issue #3367 by adding proper support for custom comparers in unordered collection equivalency assertions. The solution uses a linear search approach for custom comparers instead of relying on Dictionary-based lookups that can fail when custom comparers have inconsistent GetHashCode implementations.

✅ Positive Aspects

1. Problem Understanding & Solution Design

  • Excellent identification of the root cause: custom comparers (especially tolerance-based ones) often cannot implement GetHashCode correctly
  • Clear documentation explaining why the linear search approach is necessary
  • Maintains backward compatibility and performance for default comparers

2. Code Quality

  • Well-structured conditional logic separating custom vs. default comparer paths
  • Comprehensive inline comments explaining the design decision (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:86-91)
  • Follows project coding standards from CLAUDE.md
  • Proper handling of null values in both code paths

3. Test Coverage

  • Comprehensive test suite covering edge cases (Tests3367.cs)
  • Tests include: single elements, arrays, different order, failure cases, and duplicates
  • Good use of tolerance-based DoubleComparer as a realistic example
  • Proper verification of both success and failure scenarios

4. API Management

  • Correctly updated all public API snapshot files
  • No breaking changes to existing API surface

⚠️ Areas for Improvement

1. Performance Considerations

  • Major Concern: The linear search approach is O(n²) vs. O(n) for the Dictionary approach
  • While the comments justify this trade-off, there's no fallback mechanism or optimization for scenarios where the custom comparer might have a working GetHashCode
  • Consider adding a comment about the performance impact in XML docs

2. Code Robustness

  • The null handling logic is repeated in both paths (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:105-106 vs 71-72)
  • Consider extracting a helper method for null-safe equality checking to reduce duplication

3. Detection Logic

  • var isCustomComparer = _comparer != null; (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:91) might be too simplistic
  • Some custom comparers might actually have correct GetHashCode implementations and could benefit from Dictionary performance

🔒 Security & Thread Safety

  • No security concerns identified
  • Code appears thread-safe (no shared mutable state)
  • Follows defensive programming practices with null checks

🚀 Performance Analysis

  • Trade-off: O(n²) for custom comparers vs. O(n) for default comparers
  • Justified for correctness, but could impact large collections with custom comparers
  • The Dictionary path remains optimized for the common case (default comparer)

📖 Documentation & Maintainability

  • Excellent inline documentation explaining the algorithmic choice
  • Test names are descriptive and scenarios are well-covered
  • Code is readable and follows established patterns

🎯 Suggestions

1. Performance Documentation

/// <summary>
/// Note: When using custom comparers, this method uses O(n²) linear search
/// instead of O(n) Dictionary lookup to ensure correctness when GetHashCode
/// is not properly implemented for custom equality semantics.
/// </summary>
public IsEquivalentToAssertion<TCollection, TItem> Using(IEqualityComparer<TItem> comparer)

2. Consider Helper Method

private static bool AreEqual<T>(T expected, T actual, IEqualityComparer<T> comparer)
{
    return expected == null && actual == null ||
           expected != null && actual != null && comparer.Equals(expected, actual);
}

✅ Final Assessment

This is a well-implemented fix that correctly addresses the reported issue. The solution demonstrates:

  • Deep understanding of the problem domain
  • Pragmatic trade-offs between performance and correctness
  • Comprehensive testing
  • Good documentation

The O(n²) performance characteristic is a reasonable trade-off for the correctness benefits, and the implementation maintains optimal performance for the default case.

Recommendation: ✅ APPROVE

This PR successfully fixes the reported issue while maintaining code quality standards and comprehensive test coverage.

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Pull Request Review

Reviewing PR #3368 that fixes issue #3367 regarding custom comparers in IsEquivalentToAssertion.

Review Checklist:

  • Read project guidelines and understand context
  • Analyze main implementation changes
  • Review test coverage and quality
  • Evaluate public API changes
  • Assess code quality, performance, and security
  • Provide comprehensive feedback

📋 Review Summary

This PR implements a fix for issue #3367 by adding proper support for custom comparers in unordered collection equivalency assertions. The solution uses a linear search approach for custom comparers instead of relying on Dictionary-based lookups that can fail when custom comparers have inconsistent GetHashCode implementations.

✅ Positive Aspects

1. Problem Understanding & Solution Design

  • Excellent identification of the root cause: custom comparers (especially tolerance-based ones) often cannot implement GetHashCode correctly
  • Clear documentation explaining why the linear search approach is necessary
  • Maintains backward compatibility and performance for default comparers

2. Code Quality

  • Well-structured conditional logic separating custom vs. default comparer paths
  • Comprehensive inline comments explaining the design decision (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:86-91)
  • Follows project coding standards from CLAUDE.md
  • Proper handling of null values in both code paths

3. Test Coverage

  • Comprehensive test suite covering edge cases (Tests3367.cs)
  • Tests include: single elements, arrays, different order, failure cases, and duplicates
  • Good use of tolerance-based DoubleComparer as a realistic example
  • Proper verification of both success and failure scenarios

4. API Management

  • Correctly updated all public API snapshot files
  • No breaking changes to existing API surface

⚠️ Areas for Improvement

1. Performance Considerations

  • Major Concern: The linear search approach is O(n²) vs. O(n) for the Dictionary approach
  • While the comments justify this trade-off, there's no fallback mechanism or optimization for scenarios where the custom comparer might have a working GetHashCode
  • Consider adding a comment about the performance impact in XML docs

2. Code Robustness

  • The null handling logic is repeated in both paths (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:105-106 vs 71-72)
  • Consider extracting a helper method for null-safe equality checking to reduce duplication

3. Detection Logic

  • var isCustomComparer = _comparer != null; (IsEquivalentToAssertion.cs:91) might be too simplistic
  • Some custom comparers might actually have correct GetHashCode implementations and could benefit from Dictionary performance

🔒 Security & Thread Safety

  • No security concerns identified
  • Code appears thread-safe (no shared mutable state)
  • Follows defensive programming practices with null checks

🚀 Performance Analysis

  • Trade-off: O(n²) for custom comparers vs. O(n) for default comparers
  • Justified for correctness, but could impact large collections with custom comparers
  • The Dictionary path remains optimized for the common case (default comparer)

📖 Documentation & Maintainability

  • Excellent inline documentation explaining the algorithmic choice
  • Test names are descriptive and scenarios are well-covered
  • Code is readable and follows established patterns

🎯 Suggestions

1. Performance Documentation

/// <summary>
/// Note: When using custom comparers, this method uses O(n²) linear search
/// instead of O(n) Dictionary lookup to ensure correctness when GetHashCode
/// is not properly implemented for custom equality semantics.
/// </summary>
public IsEquivalentToAssertion<TCollection, TItem> Using(IEqualityComparer<TItem> comparer)

2. Consider Helper Method

private static bool AreEqual<T>(T expected, T actual, IEqualityComparer<T> comparer)
{
    return expected == null && actual == null ||
           expected != null && actual != null && comparer.Equals(expected, actual);
}

✅ Final Assessment

This is a well-implemented fix that correctly addresses the reported issue. The solution demonstrates:

  • Deep understanding of the problem domain
  • Pragmatic trade-offs between performance and correctness
  • Comprehensive testing
  • Good documentation

The O(n²) performance characteristic is a reasonable trade-off for the correctness benefits, and the implementation maintains optimal performance for the default case.

Recommendation: ✅ APPROVE

This PR successfully fixes the reported issue while maintaining code quality standards and comprehensive test coverage.


@thomhurst thomhurst merged commit 33b6ba4 into main Oct 14, 2025
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@thomhurst thomhurst deleted the bug/3367 branch October 14, 2025 11:23
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IsEquivalentTo does not work correctly with a custom comparer

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