[ALCA-DB] Various fixes/improvements for unit test

[smuzaffar]

• Convert unit tests to use <test ...command="cmd"/> instead of using FW unit tests driver
• Make sure that test can run from its dedicated test directory.

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-41161/34818

• This PR adds an extra 12KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for master.

It involves the following packages:

• CondFormats/PCLConfig (db, alca)
• CondTools/BeamSpot (db, alca)

@cmsbuild, @tvami, @saumyaphor4252, @francescobrivio can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mmusich, @tocheng, @seemasharmafnal this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

[smuzaffar]

please test

[tvami]

+1

[tvami]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs after it passes the integration tests. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-25e743/31561/summary.html
COMMIT: dbfda5e
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_1_X_2023-03-22-2300/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/41161/31561/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 5 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 49
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3552750
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 6
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3552722
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 48 files compared)
• Checked 213 log files, 164 edm output root files, 49 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[perrotta]

+1