I'm pretty sure a lot of this test functionality may be covered in some
of our existing regression tests, but I've included them to ensure we
put all failure-based tests under our new testing method for that kind
of test.
Didn't include lower replication factor, as (for a single-shard mod.),
it's indistinguishable from modifying a reference table. So these all
test modifications which hit a single, replicated shard.
Jason Petersen