Tracker Alignment: update PV Validation tool as used in Ultra-Legacy

[mmusich]

PR description:

The purpose of this PR is to update the code of the PV Validation tool used in the tracker alignment to the standard used during the Run-2 Ultra-Legacy campaigns.
N.B.: the total amount of changes is large, but is actually due to the obligatory code-format that I've factorized in a6fd139

PR validation:

PR passes compilation and standard unit tests.
Extensive usage of the tool has been done during the Ultra-Legacy campaign, including the production of the recently approved results (see Approved DPS).
Here an example of the approved results for 2017:

if this PR is a backport please specify the original PR:

This PR is not a backport
cc:
@adewit @connorpa

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• This PR adds an extra 136KB to repository

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A new Pull Request was created by @mmusich (Marco Musich) for master.

It involves the following packages:

Alignment/OfflineValidation

@christopheralanwest, @tocheng, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @tlampen, @pohsun can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mschrode, @mmusich, @adewit, @tocheng, @tlampen this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @slava77, @fabiocos you are the release manager for this.

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Tested at: a6fd139
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Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 34
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2957224
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2956882
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 341
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 33 files compared)
• Checked 145 log files, 15 edm output root files, 34 DQM output files

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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. @davidlange6, @slava77, @smuzaffar, @fabiocos (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

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