Rewrote statemachine test using catch2

[Dr15Jones]

PR description:

• removed old comparison files

PR validation:

Code compiles, test passes.

resolves cms-sw/framework-team#2157

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-50708/48985

• There are other open Pull requests which might conflict with changes you have proposed:
  • File FWCore/Framework/test/BuildFile.xml modified in PR(s): Add support for setting process.options from the command line #50585

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Dr15Jones for master.

It involves the following packages:

• FWCore/Framework (core)

@Dr15Jones, @cmsbuild, @makortel, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@makortel, @wddgit this is something you requested to watch as well.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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[Dr15Jones]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 32KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7688d0/52642/summary.html
COMMIT: 92f7cb0
CMSSW: CMSSW_17_0_X_2026-04-13-1100/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/50708/52642/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @jsamudio Add zero initialization of PF layer cluster SoA #50670

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7688d0/52642/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7688d0/52642/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 6 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 53
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4186437
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4186414
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 52 files compared)
• Checked 227 log files, 197 edm output root files, 53 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[makortel]

+core

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy, @ftenchini (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[ftenchini]

+1