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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+++ b/aio/content/examples/comparing-observables/e2e/src/app.e2e-spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*
+ * 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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+{
+  "tests": [
+    {
+      "cmd": "yarn",
+      "args": ["tsc", "--project", "tsconfig.spec.json", "--module", "commonjs"]
+    },
+    {
+      "cmd": "yarn",
+      "args": ["jasmine", "out-tsc/**/*.spec.js"]
+    }
+  ]
+}