def METHOD_NAME(self, smaller, larger, msg=""):
    """Raises an AssertionError if two array_like objects are not ordered by less
    than.
    Given two array_like objects, check that the shape is equal and all
    elements of the first object are strictly smaller than those of the
    second object. An exception is raised at shape mismatch or incorrectly
    ordered values. Shape mismatch does not raise if an object has zero
    dimension. In contrast to the standard usage in numpy, NaNs are
    compared, no assertion is raised if both objects have NaNs in the same
    positions.
    Parameters
    ----------
    smaller : array_like
      The smaller object to check.
    larger : array_like
      The larger object to compare.
    msg : string
      The error message to be printed in case of failure.
    Raises
    ------
    AssertionError
        If actual and desired objects are not equal.
    """
    np.testing.assert_array_less(x=smaller, y=larger, err_msg=msg, verbose=True)