diff --git a/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/e2e/src/app.e2e-spec.ts b/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/e2e/src/app.e2e-spec.ts
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index ac89f882d0a62..0000000000000
--- a/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/e2e/src/app.e2e-spec.ts
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This example project is special in that it is not a cli app. To run tests appropriate for this
- * project, the test command is overwritten in `aio/content/examples/observables/example-config.json`.
- *
- * This is an empty placeholder file to ensure that `aio/tools/examples/run-example-e2e.js` runs
- * tests for this project.
- *
- * TODO: Fix our infrastructure/tooling, so that this hack is not necessary.
- */
diff --git a/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/example-config.json b/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/example-config.json
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index 3aa2059b4d004..0000000000000
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-{
-  "tests": [
-    {
-      "cmd": "yarn",
-      "args": ["tsc", "--project", "tsconfig.spec.json", "--module", "commonjs"]
-    },
-    {
-      "cmd": "yarn",
-      "args": ["jasmine", "out-tsc/**/*.spec.js"]
-    }
-  ]
-}