diff --git a/src/ui-test/tests/tasks.json.autocompletion.test.ts b/src/ui-test/tests/tasks.json.autocompletion.test.ts
index 7a8b611f..f6aa9921 100644
--- a/src/ui-test/tests/tasks.json.autocompletion.test.ts
+++ b/src/ui-test/tests/tasks.json.autocompletion.test.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 import { expect } from "chai";
 import { activateEditor, closeEditor, getFileContent, openFileInEditor, selectFromCA } from "../utils";
 import { ActivityBar, TextEditor, VSBrowser, WebDriver } from "vscode-uitests-tooling";
-import path = require("path");
+import * as path from "path";
 import { RESOURCES_DIR, RESOURCES_TASK_EXAMPLES_DIR, TASKS_TEST_FILE } from "../variables";
 
 describe('Completion inside tasks.json', function () {
diff --git a/src/ui-test/variables.ts b/src/ui-test/variables.ts
index 8acb8bb4..1e549d76 100644
--- a/src/ui-test/variables.ts
+++ b/src/ui-test/variables.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ export const TEST_RESOURCES_DIR = path.resolve('.', 'test-resources');
 export const EXTENSION_DIR = path.join(TEST_RESOURCES_DIR, 'test-extensions');
 export const WORKBENCH_DIR = path.join(TEST_RESOURCES_DIR, 'ui-workbench');
 export const RESOURCES_DIR = path.resolve('.', 'src', 'ui-test', 'resources');
-export const RESOURCES_TASK_EXAMPLES_DIR: string = path.resolve(RESOURCES_DIR, 'tasks-examples');
+export const RESOURCES_TASK_EXAMPLES_DIR: string = path.join(RESOURCES_DIR, 'tasks-examples');
 
 export const TASKS_TEST_FILE: string = "tasks.json";
 
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 7559f269..48c3dae1 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 		],
 		"sourceMap": true,
 		"rootDir": "src",
-		"skipLibCheck": true,
-		"strict": false   /* enable all strict type-checking options */
+		"skipLibCheck": true
 		/* Additional Checks */
 		// "noImplicitReturns": true, /* Report error when not all code paths in function return a value. */
 		// "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true, /* Report errors for fallthrough cases in switch statement. */