Minor improvements for testing and api

[Martin-Molinero]

Description

• Minor tweaks in regression tests and helper clases
• Minor API sugars

Related Issue

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Motivation and Context

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Requires Documentation Change

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How Has This Been Tested?

Existing and new tests

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Refactor (non-breaking change which improves implementation)
• Performance (non-breaking change which improves performance. Please add associated performance test and results)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Non-functional change (xml comments/documentation/etc)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have added tests to cover my changes.
• All new and existing tests passed.
• My branch follows the naming convention bug-<issue#>-<description> or feature-<issue#>-<description>