diff --git a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts
index eacb67eb82..bf5e5202c8 100644
--- a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts
+++ b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
+// #docplaster
+// #docregion without-toBlob-macrotask
 import { TestBed, async, tick, fakeAsync } from '@angular/core/testing';
 import { CanvasComponent } from './canvas.component';
+
 describe('CanvasComponent', () => {
+  // #enddocregion without-toBlob-macrotask
+  // #docregion enable-toBlob-macrotask
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    window['__zone_symbol__FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [
+      {
+        source: 'HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob',
+        callbackArgs: [{ size: 200 }],
+      },
+    ];
+  });
+  // #enddocregion enable-toBlob-macrotask
+  // #docregion without-toBlob-macrotask
   beforeEach(async(() => {
     TestBed.configureTestingModule({
       declarations: [
@@ -8,20 +23,16 @@ describe('CanvasComponent', () => {
       ],
     }).compileComponents();
   }));
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    window['__zone_symbol__FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [
-      {
-        source: 'HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob',
-        callbackArgs: [{ size: 200 }]
-      }
-    ];
-  });
+
   it('should be able to generate blob data from canvas', fakeAsync(() => {
     const fixture = TestBed.createComponent(CanvasComponent);
+    const canvasComp = fixture.debugElement.componentInstance;
+
     fixture.detectChanges();
+    expect(canvasComp.blobSize).toBe(0);
+
     tick();
-    const app = fixture.debugElement.componentInstance;
-    expect(app.blobSize).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(canvasComp.blobSize).toBeGreaterThan(0);
   }));
 });
-
+// #enddocregion without-toBlob-macrotask
diff --git a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts
index 251ee01d96..fdfd9db8b0 100644
--- a/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts
+++ b/aio/content/examples/testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts
@@ -1,25 +1,32 @@
+// #docplaster
+// #docregion import-canvas-patch
+// Import patch to make async `HTMLCanvasElement` methods (such as `.toBlob()`) Zone.js-aware.
+// Either import in `polyfills.ts` (if used in more than one places in the app) or in the component
+// file using `HTMLCanvasElement` (if it is only used in a single file).
+import 'zone.js/dist/zone-patch-canvas';
+// #enddocregion import-canvas-patch
+// #docregion main
 import { Component, AfterViewInit, ViewChild, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';
 
 @Component({
   selector: 'sample-canvas',
-  template: '<canvas #sampleCanvas width="200" height="200"></canvas>'
+  template: '<canvas #sampleCanvas width="200" height="200"></canvas>',
 })
 export class CanvasComponent implements AfterViewInit {
-  blobSize: number;
+  blobSize = 0;
   @ViewChild('sampleCanvas') sampleCanvas: ElementRef;
 
-  constructor() { }
-
   ngAfterViewInit() {
-    const canvas = this.sampleCanvas.nativeElement;
+    const canvas: HTMLCanvasElement = this.sampleCanvas.nativeElement;
     const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
-    if (context) {
-      context.clearRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
-      context.fillStyle = '#FF1122';
-      context.fillRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
-      canvas.toBlob((blob: any) => {
-        this.blobSize = blob.size;
-      });
-    }
+
+    context.clearRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
+    context.fillStyle = '#FF1122';
+    context.fillRect(0, 0, 200, 200);
+
+    canvas.toBlob(blob => {
+      this.blobSize = blob.size;
+    });
   }
 }
+// #enddocregion main
diff --git a/aio/content/guide/testing.md b/aio/content/guide/testing.md
index 0eeb798aed..c3dead9ba1 100644
--- a/aio/content/guide/testing.md
+++ b/aio/content/guide/testing.md
@@ -899,8 +899,7 @@ In production, change detection kicks in automatically
 when Angular creates a component or the user enters a keystroke or
 an asynchronous activity (e.g., AJAX) completes.
 
-The `TestBed.createComponent` does _not_ trigger change detection.
-a fact confirmed in the revised test:
+The `TestBed.createComponent` does _not_ trigger change detection; a fact confirmed in the revised test:
 
 <code-example
   path="testing/src/app/banner/banner.component.spec.ts" region="test-w-o-detect-changes"></code-example>
@@ -1051,8 +1050,7 @@ attempt to reach an authentication server.
 These behaviors can be hard to intercept.
 It is far easier and safer to create and register a test double in place of the real `UserService`.
 
-This particular test suite supplies a minimal mock of the `UserService` that satisfies the needs of the `WelcomeComponent`
-and its tests:
+This particular test suite supplies a minimal mock of the `UserService` that satisfies the needs of the `WelcomeComponent` and its tests:
 
 <code-example
   path="testing/src/app/welcome/welcome.component.spec.ts"
@@ -1266,8 +1264,7 @@ You do have to call [tick()](api/core/testing/tick) to advance the (virtual) clo
 Calling [tick()](api/core/testing/tick) simulates the passage of time until all pending asynchronous activities finish.
 In this case, it waits for the error handler's `setTimeout()`.
 
-The [tick()](api/core/testing/tick) function accepts milliseconds and tickOptions as parameters, the millisecond (defaults to 0 if not provided) parameter represents how much the virtual clock advances. For example, if you have a `setTimeout(fn, 100)` in a `fakeAsync()` test, you need to use tick(100) to trigger the fn callback. The tickOptions is an optional parameter with a property called processNewMacroTasksSynchronously (defaults is true) represents whether to invoke
-new generated macro tasks when ticking.
+The [tick()](api/core/testing/tick) function accepts milliseconds and tickOptions as parameters, the millisecond (defaults to 0 if not provided) parameter represents how much the virtual clock advances. For example, if you have a `setTimeout(fn, 100)` in a `fakeAsync()` test, you need to use tick(100) to trigger the fn callback. The tickOptions is an optional parameter with a property called `processNewMacroTasksSynchronously` (defaults to true) represents whether to invoke new generated macro tasks when ticking.
 
 <code-example
   path="testing/src/app/demo/async-helper.spec.ts"
@@ -1331,51 +1328,46 @@ You can also use RxJS scheduler in `fakeAsync()` just like using `setTimeout()`
 
 #### Support more macroTasks
 
-By default `fakeAsync()` supports the following `macroTasks`.
+By default, `fakeAsync()` supports the following macro tasks.
 
-- setTimeout
-- setInterval
-- requestAnimationFrame
-- webkitRequestAnimationFrame
-- mozRequestAnimationFrame
+- `setTimeout`
+- `setInterval`
+- `requestAnimationFrame`
+- `webkitRequestAnimationFrame`
+- `mozRequestAnimationFrame`
 
-If you run other `macroTask` such as `HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob()`, `Unknown macroTask scheduled in fake async test` error will be thrown.
+If you run other macro tasks such as `HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob()`, an _"Unknown macroTask scheduled in fake async test"_ error will be thrown.
 
 <code-tabs>
   <code-pane
+    header="src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts (failing)"
     path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts"
-    header="src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts">
+    region="without-toBlob-macrotask">
   </code-pane>
   <code-pane
+    header="src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts"
     path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts"
-    header="src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts">
+    region="main">
   </code-pane>
 </code-tabs>
 
-If you want to support such a case, you need to define the `macroTask` you want to support in `beforeEach()`.
+If you want to support such a case, you need to define the macro task you want to support in `beforeEach()`.
 For example:
 
-```javascript
-beforeEach(() => {
-  window['__zone_symbol__FakeAsyncTestMacroTask'] = [
-    {
-      source: 'HTMLCanvasElement.toBlob',
-      callbackArgs: [{ size: 200 }]
-    }
-  ];
-});
+<code-example
+  header="src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts (excerpt)"
+  path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.spec.ts"
+  region="enable-toBlob-macrotask">
+</code-example>
+
+Note that in order to make the `<canvas>` element Zone.js-aware in your app, you need to import the `zone-patch-canvas` patch (either in `polyfills.ts` or in the specific file that uses `<canvas>`):
+
+<code-example
+  header="src/polyfills.ts or src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts"
+  path="testing/src/app/shared/canvas.component.ts"
+  region="import-canvas-patch">
+</code-example>
 
-it('toBlob should be able to run in fakeAsync', fakeAsync(() => {
-    const canvas: HTMLCanvasElement = document.getElementById('canvas') as HTMLCanvasElement;
-    let blob = null;
-    canvas.toBlob(function(b) {
-      blob = b;
-    });
-    tick();
-    expect(blob.size).toBe(200);
-  })
-);
-```
 
 #### Async observables
 
@@ -3635,7 +3627,7 @@ next to their corresponding helper files.
 #### Keep it simple
 
 [Component class testing](#component-class-testing) should be kept very clean and simple.
-It should test only a single unit. On a first glance, you should be able to understand 
+It should test only a single unit. On a first glance, you should be able to understand
 what the test is testing. If it's doing more, then it doesn't belong here.
 
 {@a q-end-to-end}