diff --git a/js/js.tests/build.gradle.kts b/js/js.tests/build.gradle.kts
index ba5b28b9dcf..c52f934e360 100644
--- a/js/js.tests/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/js/js.tests/build.gradle.kts
@@ -169,7 +169,11 @@ fun sequential(first: Task, tasks: List<Task>): Task {
 }
 
 fun generateTypeScriptTestFor(dir: String): Task = task<NpmTask>("generate-ts-for-$dir") {
+    val baseDir = fileTree(testDataDir.resolve("./typescript-export/$dir"))
+
     workingDir.set(testDataDir)
+    inputs.files(baseDir.include("*.ts"))
+    outputs.files(baseDir.include("*.js"))
     args.set(listOf("run", "generateTypeScriptTests", "--", "./typescript-export/$dir/tsconfig.json"))
 }
 
diff --git a/js/js.translator/testData/.gitignore b/js/js.translator/testData/.gitignore
index 60fe3520077..34def13e0aa 100644
--- a/js/js.translator/testData/.gitignore
+++ b/js/js.translator/testData/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /node_modules/
 /incrementalOut/
+*.tsbuildinfo
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/js/js.translator/testData/typescript-export/common.tsconfig.json b/js/js.translator/testData/typescript-export/common.tsconfig.json
index 90eb35259a1..2fe3d3ce697 100644
--- a/js/js.translator/testData/typescript-export/common.tsconfig.json
+++ b/js/js.translator/testData/typescript-export/common.tsconfig.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "target": "es5",
-    "strict": true
+    "strict": true,
+    "incremental": true
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file