I was doing testing with Drupal 7.43. Spent ton of time to figure out why ModuleDependencyTestCase was failing...

The reason was a version tag in info file after release.

Potentially we can have tests failure after repackaging core or contrib project for release.

I propose to do testings on release as well, after info values has been set by project module.

GitHub Link: 
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/1964
GitHub Issue #: 
1964