Abstract: Testing a numerical library's exception handling is often left to its regression tests. However, designing floating-point inputs that exercise exceptional behavior is difficult. Further-more ...

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Currently, validators are required to raise an exception, if the value isn't appropriate. If I currently have a function for checking the property, but returns a boolean, instead of raising, to use it ...