Parametrized Unit Testing

Registered by Federico Razzoli

Seems that some people can't live without PUT - and yes, it can be very convenient (while it may introduce bugs in testing development).

We need to implement these steps:

* When searching for tests, also search for Procedures which accept parameters
* If current test accepts parameters, remember its name and read comment
* Comment contains this info: parameters generator name, expected result, and how many parameters are needed. Example of syntax which should be ok: CREATE PROCEDURE my_proc ... COMMENT 'pgen: my_generator,int,string,int'
* Compose a statement which calls the generator. Example: my_generator(@p1, @p2)
* A temp table for the results is created. One column is called result, others are p1, p2...
* Generator must fill the table. Row example: result: 42, p1: 'answer', p2: 0
* By default, assert is assertEquals. Temp table has a assert column, DEFAULT 'assert_equals'. But generator can explicitly set a different assert.
* For each row in temp table, an assert must be composed. Example: CALL assert_equals(my_proc('answer', 0), 42);

All this new code must be put into a separate procedure, to avoid introducing bugs in old code.
In dbug mode, all info parsed from comment and all generated asserts must be logged.

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Assignee:
Federico Razzoli
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Series goal:
Accepted for trunk
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Milestone target:
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