Clean up _test_parse function by removing assertions

[pranavkeerti66-hue]

Removed assertions from the _test_parse function to clean up test cases.

Fixes #0000

Tasks

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• Updated documentation pages (if applicable)
• Updated CHANGELOG.rst (if applicable)