test failures

[diekhans]

master as of 2018-11-16 commit 83196b8

On Mac, node v10.13.0, npm 6.4.1

Results are not happy:
Test Suites: 4 failed, 4 passed, 8 total Tests: 16 failed, 9 passed, 25 total
Test output attached
test.log

[daniwelter]

We know. Some of the tests are outdated as they were written for the original version but never updated. They should be removed from the test suite.