diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/create_test.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/create_test.dart
index aa388bd7021..53c77b105fa 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/create_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/create_test.dart
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:convert';
-import 'dart:io' as io;
 
 import 'package:args/command_runner.dart';
 import 'package:flutter_tools/src/base/file_system.dart';
@@ -212,11 +211,7 @@ void main() {
         }
       }
 
-      // TODO(pq): enable when sky_shell is available
-      if (!io.Platform.isWindows) {
-        // Verify that the sample widget test runs cleanly.
-        await _runFlutterTest(projectDir, target: fs.path.join(projectDir.path, 'test', 'widget_test.dart'));
-      }
+      await _runFlutterTest(projectDir, target: fs.path.join(projectDir.path, 'test', 'widget_test.dart'));
 
       // Generated Xcode settings
       final String xcodeConfigPath = fs.path.join('ios', 'Flutter', 'Generated.xcconfig');
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/test_test.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/test_test.dart
index 38e966248e5..1177096d18f 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/test_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/test/commands/test_test.dart
@@ -26,28 +26,28 @@ void main() {
     testUsingContext('report nice errors for exceptions thrown within testWidgets()', () async {
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
       return _testFile('exception_handling', automatedTestsDirectory, flutterTestDirectory);
-    });
+    }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // Dart on Windows has trouble with unicode characters in output
 
     testUsingContext('report a nice error when a guarded function was called without await', () async {
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
       return _testFile('test_async_utils_guarded', automatedTestsDirectory, flutterTestDirectory);
-    });
+    }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // Dart on Windows has trouble with unicode characters in output
 
     testUsingContext('report a nice error when an async function was called without await', () async {
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
       return _testFile('test_async_utils_unguarded', automatedTestsDirectory, flutterTestDirectory);
-    });
+    }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // Dart on Windows has trouble with unicode characters in output
 
     testUsingContext('report a nice error when a Ticker is left running', () async {
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
       return _testFile('ticker', automatedTestsDirectory, flutterTestDirectory);
-    });
+    }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // Dart on Windows has trouble with unicode characters in output
 
     testUsingContext('report a nice error when a pubspec.yaml is missing a flutter_test dependency', () async {
       final String missingDependencyTests = fs.path.join('..', '..', 'dev', 'missing_dependency_tests');
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
       return _testFile('trivial', missingDependencyTests, missingDependencyTests);
-    });
+    }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // Dart on Windows has trouble with unicode characters in output
 
     testUsingContext('run a test when its name matches a regexp', () async {
       Cache.flutterRoot = '../..';
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void main() {
       expect(result.exitCode, 0);
     });
 
-  }, skip: io.Platform.isWindows); // TODO(goderbauer): enable when sky_shell is available
+  });
 }
 
 Future<Null> _testFile(String testName, String workingDirectory, String testDirectory) async {