diff --git a/packages/language-service/test/completions_spec.ts b/packages/language-service/test/completions_spec.ts
index 9e12a5db67..0bf3e4238e 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/test/completions_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/test/completions_spec.ts
@@ -469,21 +469,24 @@ describe('completions', () => {
 
   describe('for pipes', () => {
     it('should be able to get a list of pipe values', () => {
-      for (const location of ['before-pipe', 'in-pipe', 'after-pipe']) {
-        const marker = mockHost.getLocationMarkerFor(PARSING_CASES, location);
-        const completions = ngLS.getCompletionsAtPosition(PARSING_CASES, marker.start);
-        expectContain(completions, CompletionKind.PIPE, [
-          'async',
-          'uppercase',
-          'lowercase',
-          'titlecase',
-        ]);
-      }
+      // TODO(kyliau): does not work for case {{ title | ~{cursor} }}
+      //                  space before and after pipe ^^^
+      mockHost.override(TEST_TEMPLATE, `{{ title|~{cursor} }}`);
+      const marker = mockHost.getLocationMarkerFor(TEST_TEMPLATE, 'cursor');
+      const completions = ngLS.getCompletionsAtPosition(TEST_TEMPLATE, marker.start);
+      expectContain(completions, CompletionKind.PIPE, [
+        'async',
+        'lowercase',
+        'slice',
+        'titlecase',
+        'uppercase',
+      ]);
     });
 
     it('should be able to resolve lowercase', () => {
-      const marker = mockHost.getLocationMarkerFor(EXPRESSION_CASES, 'string-pipe');
-      const completions = ngLS.getCompletionsAtPosition(EXPRESSION_CASES, marker.start);
+      mockHost.override(TEST_TEMPLATE, `{{ (title | lowercase).~{cursor} }}`);
+      const marker = mockHost.getLocationMarkerFor(TEST_TEMPLATE, 'cursor');
+      const completions = ngLS.getCompletionsAtPosition(TEST_TEMPLATE, marker.start);
       expectContain(completions, CompletionKind.METHOD, [
         'charAt',
         'replace',
diff --git a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/expression-cases.ts b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/expression-cases.ts
index decc717a62..b8ebc80194 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/expression-cases.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/expression-cases.ts
@@ -39,10 +39,3 @@ export class PrivateReference {
 })
 export class ExpectNumericType {
 }
-
-@Component({
-  template: '{{ (name | lowercase).~{string-pipe}substring }}',
-})
-export class LowercasePipe {
-  name: string = 'name';
-}
diff --git a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/main.ts b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/main.ts
index daa4ef3c0b..edd01e1289 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/main.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/main.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import * as ParsingCases from './parsing-cases';
   declarations: [
     AppComponent,
     ExpressionCases.ExpectNumericType,
-    ExpressionCases.LowercasePipe,
     ExpressionCases.PrivateReference,
     ExpressionCases.WrongFieldReference,
     ExpressionCases.WrongSubFieldReference,
@@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ import * as ParsingCases from './parsing-cases';
     ParsingCases.HintModel,
     ParsingCases.NoValueAttribute,
     ParsingCases.NumberModel,
-    ParsingCases.Pipes,
     ParsingCases.References,
     ParsingCases.StringModel,
     ParsingCases.TemplateReference,
@@ -51,4 +49,4 @@ export class AppModule {
 
 declare function bootstrap(v: any): void;
 
-    bootstrap(AppComponent);
+bootstrap(AppComponent);
diff --git a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/parsing-cases.ts b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/parsing-cases.ts
index 3239e008cf..3158b8a215 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/test/project/app/parsing-cases.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/test/project/app/parsing-cases.ts
@@ -31,13 +31,6 @@ export class CaseMissingClosing {
 export class CaseUnknown {
 }
 
-@Component({
-  template: '<h1>{{data | ~{before-pipe}lowe~{in-pipe}rcase~{after-pipe} }}',
-})
-export class Pipes {
-  data = 'Some string';
-}
-
 @Component({
   template: '<h1 h~{no-value-attribute}></h1>',
 })
@@ -175,7 +168,7 @@ export class TemplateReference {
   myClick(event: any) {}
   birthday = new Date();
   readonlyHeroes: ReadonlyArray<Readonly<Hero>> = this.heroes;
-  constNames = [{name: 'name'}] as const ;
+  constNames = [{name: 'name'}] as const;
 }
 
 @Component({
diff --git a/packages/language-service/test/typescript_host_spec.ts b/packages/language-service/test/typescript_host_spec.ts
index 7d383c46d6..07a09575f9 100644
--- a/packages/language-service/test/typescript_host_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/language-service/test/typescript_host_spec.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ describe('TypeScriptServiceHost', () => {
     const tsLS = ts.createLanguageService(tsLSHost);
     const ngLSHost = new TypeScriptServiceHost(tsLSHost, tsLS);
     const templates = ngLSHost.getTemplates('/app/parsing-cases.ts');
-    expect(templates.length).toBe(9);
+    expect(templates.length).toBe(8);
   });
 
   it('should be able to find external template', () => {