diff --git a/cli/tests/std_tests.rs b/cli/tests/std_tests.rs
index 6ed5d25185..bb14f9c3aa 100644
--- a/cli/tests/std_tests.rs
+++ b/cli/tests/std_tests.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright 2018-2020 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
 
-// TODO: fix tests in debug mode
-// Runs only on release build
-#[cfg(not(debug_assertions))]
 mod tests {
   extern crate lazy_static;
   extern crate tempfile;