I introduced a not-quite-an-error in 1.7 in that the tests were attempting to load test pages through localhost. This wouldn’t work unless you have a local web server up and working and with the correct document root set. As Standalone Talos is designed to have minimal requirements I’ve updated it to use file:// instead of http://. Now it will run without any webservice.
Again, if you use Standalone Talos for local testing please update to latest.