diff --git a/src/cli/task-test.ts b/src/cli/task-test.ts
index 8ba346f40a5..2ef8dde1147 100644
--- a/src/cli/task-test.ts
+++ b/src/cli/task-test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export const taskTest = async (config: Config) => {
   }
 
   try {
+    config.buildDocs = false;
     const testingRunOpts: TestingRunOptions = {
       e2e: !!config.flags.e2e,
       screenshot: !!config.flags.screenshot,
diff --git a/test/end-to-end/.gitignore b/test/end-to-end/.gitignore
index 97a6d421728..6577627f09b 100644
--- a/test/end-to-end/.gitignore
+++ b/test/end-to-end/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-dist-react
\ No newline at end of file
+dist-react
+docs.json
+docs.d.ts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/end-to-end/stencil.config.ts b/test/end-to-end/stencil.config.ts
index 80c6efc674e..c4c54bad7b5 100644
--- a/test/end-to-end/stencil.config.ts
+++ b/test/end-to-end/stencil.config.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ export const config: Config = {
     {
       type: 'dist-hydrate-script',
     },
+    {
+      type: 'docs-json',
+      file: 'docs.json',
+    },
     reactOutputTarget({
       componentCorePackage: '@stencil/e2e-react-output-target',
       proxiesFile: './dist-react/components.ts',
diff --git a/test/end-to-end/test-end-to-end-dist.js b/test/end-to-end/test-end-to-end-dist.js
index c5158cc7f02..348444da852 100644
--- a/test/end-to-end/test-end-to-end-dist.js
+++ b/test/end-to-end/test-end-to-end-dist.js
@@ -42,4 +42,7 @@ fs.accessSync(path.join(wwwDir, 'index.html'));
 
 fs.accessSync(path.join(__dirname, 'dist-react', 'components.ts'));
 
+fs.accessSync(path.join(__dirname, 'docs.json'));
+fs.accessSync(path.join(__dirname, 'docs.d.ts'));
+
 console.log('🍄  validated test/end-to-end/dist files\n');