@jlc, thank you so much for trying out our guide and keeping us up to date. 
I’ve made some changes to the OP’s example acceptance test to reflect some new changes we’re using for acceptance tests. Essentially, the two changes are
- imports, and
- the usage of the
needsconstant withinacceptance
That should solve most of the issues you’ve mentioned. You can also make use of some of the needs options here:
Looking through the whole qunit-helpers file would also be very useful!