More updates to tests

This branch/PR is meant to add and improve several tests before 1.3 is out.
> Perhaps it better to uncomment this and the Jaguar test, and put a skip test statement so we don't forget about it?
> 
> Yeah, that's a good idea.

On second thought, we don't have the logfiles available, and the regression suite checks that they exist (which is nice and cleaned up the script a bit). We would need to add an empty file or something. Seems to much effort... I think the comments are enough to remind us in the far future.