If you let people know what you are trying you will probably be able to get some from members here, as mining on the testnet does not geneate a lot of coins anymore. But, for now here are some faucets:
You should be able to get the tbtc 0.5-0.7 you are looking for in a day or two of hitting them.
I am a fan of using regtest whenever possible:
https://developer.bitcoin.org/examples/testing.htmlhttps://gist.github.com/System-Glitch/cb4e87bf1ae3fec9925725bb3ebe223aAs others have pointed out it does not work for everything but it will let you test most apps that are using core as their back end easily.
-Dave
rate limited from all the faucets, was just going to experiment with tbtc. still yet to learn what all this stuff means on the github etc.