Tests

[ENH] Replace `asserts` with proper `if else` Exception handling #2473

Job	Run time
(windows-latest, Py, sk0.24.*, sk-only:false)	3s
docker	4s
(ubuntu-latest, Py3.8, sk0.23.1, sk-only:false)	3s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	53s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	1m 0s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	57s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	57s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	1m 4s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	57s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.3.*,sk-only:true)	1m 0s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.10,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	58s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	1m 4s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	1m 4s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	58s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.4.*,sk-only:true)	1m 1s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	1m 1s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	1m 3s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 5s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.7.*,sk-only:false)	1h 13m 41s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.6.*,sk-only:true)	4m 20s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.,pd:2.,sk-only:false)	1h 13m 52s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.13,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	1m 3s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	1m 8s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.14,sk1.5.*,sk-only:true)	4m 26s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:false)	1h 13m 43s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.12,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	59s
(windows-latest,Py3.12,sk1.5.*,sk-only:false)	1h 14m 18s
(ubuntu-latest,Py3.11,sk1.7.*,sk-only:true)	58s
	5h 23m 40s

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