serialise the tests that share ProblemDetailsFactory's static defaults

[arnelirobles]

Fixes #33.

What was wrong

ProblemDetailsFactory's parameterless overloads read a process-wide static. SetDefaultOptions and AddVerdictProblemDetails both write it. xUnit runs test classes in parallel by default, and four classes in this assembly touch that static:

• ProductionReadinessTests writes it, in a loop, alternating IncludeErrorCode true and false
• VerdictProblemDetailsOptionsTests writes it
• DiScopedConfigurationTests writes it via AddVerdictProblemDetails
• ProblemDetailsFactoryTests reads it

So a class mutating the static could run at the same instant as the class reading it.

Why it looked flaky and was not

It is order-dependent, not random: it passes on an incremental build and fails after dotnet clean, because a clean build changes assembly and collection ordering and therefore which class runs when.

That is what made it hard to place. I hit it while preparing 2.8.0, spent a while suspecting my own version bump, and filed a duplicate issue before finding this one. @snowyukitty had already diagnosed it correctly on 15 August, in the checklist of #34, and left the box unticked rather than claiming a green run.

The fix, and which half actually does the work

A [CollectionDefinition] puts all four classes in one xUnit collection so they cannot run concurrently, plus ProductionReadinessTests now restores the static on teardown and immediately after the concurrency test.

Mutation-tested in both directions, which changed what I would have claimed:

Mutation	Result
Remove the restore, keep the collection	still passes
Keep the restore, remove the collection from the reader	fails, then passes across two runs

So the collection is load-bearing and the restore is defensive depth. That makes sense once stated: the restore runs at class teardown, but the damage happens during execution while both classes are live. Cleanup after the fact cannot win a race that is already lost.

The restore is still worth keeping, since it stops a future test in that class leaking into a later one, but I would have described this fix wrongly if I had only run the happy path.

Verification

• 601 tests pass across all nine projects on a clean solution build.
• Verdict.AspNetCore.Tests passes 63/63 on three consecutive clean builds, which is the condition that used to flip it.
• Public API unchanged: 8 API approval tests pass.

Note on the underlying design

The collection is the honest fix rather than a workaround. The static is real shared state kept for backwards compatibility, so tests covering it genuinely cannot run concurrently. 2.7.0 added container-scoped configuration as the way out for consumers; these tests still have to cover the static path for as long as it ships.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Improved isolation for problem-details configuration scenarios.
  • Serialized related tests to prevent interference from shared settings.
  • Added cleanup and explicit resets to ensure consistent results across test runs.

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The tests now share an xUnit collection for process-wide ProblemDetailsFactory options. Tests that mutate these options reset them during disposal or after concurrent access.

Changes

Shared static option test isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Static option collection membership tests/Verdict.AspNetCore.Tests/ProblemDetailsStaticCollection.cs, tests/Verdict.AspNetCore.Tests/*Tests.cs	Defines ProblemDetailsStaticCollection and assigns the affected test classes to it.
Default option cleanup tests/Verdict.AspNetCore.Tests/ProductionReadinessTests.cs, tests/Verdict.AspNetCore.Tests/VerdictProblemDetailsOptionsTests.cs	Adds disposal-based reset logic, resets options after concurrent access, and removes an inline reset that is now handled by Dispose.

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Possibly related issues

• #35: The changes group tests that share ProblemDetailsFactory static options and add reset logic to prevent leaked state.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR implements the narrower fix requested by [#33] by serializing affected tests and resetting shared static defaults.
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