The bitbake variable SUMMARY must be present on new recipes so the test suite should check the later.
There are cases where SUMMARY is either on classes or inc files, so system should not only rely on incoming series data.
This test is basically done and Daniela is testing it.
A more general bug related to all current tests cases requiring bitbake data is being tracked at bug 10059 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10059 ***