diff --git a/src/harness/externalCompileRunner.ts b/src/harness/externalCompileRunner.ts
index 9b8fc8c4fc5..ec8acf4872e 100644
--- a/src/harness/externalCompileRunner.ts
+++ b/src/harness/externalCompileRunner.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 /// <reference path="harness.ts"/>
 /// <reference path="runnerbase.ts" />
+const fs = require("fs");
+const path = require("path");
 abstract class ExternalCompileRunnerBase extends RunnerBase {
     abstract testDir: string;
-    public enumerateTestFiles() {
+    abstract report(result: any, cwd: string): string;
+    enumerateTestFiles() {
         return Harness.IO.getDirectories(this.testDir);
     }
     /** Setup the runner's tests so that they are ready to be executed by the harness
      *  The first test should be a describe/it block that sets up the harness's compiler instance appropriately
      */
-    public initializeTests(): void {
+    initializeTests(): void {
         // Read in and evaluate the test list
         const testList = this.tests && this.tests.length ? this.tests : this.enumerateTestFiles();
 
@@ -36,15 +39,7 @@ abstract class ExternalCompileRunnerBase extends RunnerBase {
                     if (install.status !== 0) throw new Error(`NPM Install for ${directoryName} failed!`);
                 }
                 Harness.Baseline.runBaseline(`${this.kind()}/${directoryName}.log`, () => {
-                    const result = cp.spawnSync(`node`, [path.join(__dirname, "tsc.js")], { cwd, timeout, shell: true });
-                    // tslint:disable-next-line:no-null-keyword
-                    return result.status === 0 && !result.stdout.length && !result.stderr.length ? null : `Exit Code: ${result.status}
-Standard output:
-${result.stdout.toString().replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}
-
-
-Standard error:
-${result.stderr.toString().replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}`;
+                    return this.report(cp.spawnSync(`node`, [path.join(__dirname, "tsc.js")], { cwd, timeout, shell: true }), cwd);
                 });
             });
         });
@@ -52,16 +47,80 @@ ${result.stderr.toString().replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}`;
 }
 
 class UserCodeRunner extends ExternalCompileRunnerBase {
-    public readonly testDir = "tests/cases/user/";
-    public kind(): TestRunnerKind {
+    readonly testDir = "tests/cases/user/";
+    kind(): TestRunnerKind {
         return "user";
     }
+    report(result: any) {
+        // tslint:disable-next-line:no-null-keyword
+        return result.status === 0 && !result.stdout.length && !result.stderr.length ? null : `Exit Code: ${result.status}
+Standard output:
+${result.stdout.toString().replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}
+
+
+Standard error:
+${result.stderr.toString().replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}`;
+    }
 }
 
 class DefinitelyTypedRunner extends ExternalCompileRunnerBase {
-    public readonly testDir = "../DefinitelyTyped/types/";
-    public workingDirectory = this.testDir;
-    public kind(): TestRunnerKind {
+    readonly testDir = "../DefinitelyTyped/types/";
+    workingDirectory = this.testDir;
+    kind(): TestRunnerKind {
         return "dt";
     }
+    report(result: any, cwd: string) {
+        const stdout = filterExpectedErrors(result.stdout.toString(), cwd)
+        const stderr = result.stderr.toString()
+        // tslint:disable-next-line:no-null-keyword
+        return !stdout.length && !stderr.length ? null : `Exit Code: ${result.status}
+Standard output:
+${stdout.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}
+
+
+Standard error:
+${stderr.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n")}`;
+    }
+}
+
+function filterExpectedErrors(errors: string, cwd: string): string {
+    return breaks(errors.split("\n"), s => /^\w+/.test(s)).filter(isExpectedError(cwd)).map(lines => lines.join("\n")).join("\n");
+}
+function isExpectedError(cwd: string) {
+    return (error: string[]) => {
+        if (error.length === 0) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        const match = error[0].match(/(.+\.ts)\((\d+),\d+\): error TS/);
+        if (!match) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        const errlines = fs.readFileSync(path.join(cwd, match[1]), { encoding: "utf8" }).split("\n");
+        const index = parseInt(match[2]);
+        const errline = index < errlines.length ? errlines[index] : "";
+        const prevline = index - 1 < errlines.length && index > 0 ? errlines[index - 1] : "";
+        if (errline.indexOf("$ExpectError") > -1 || prevline.indexOf("$ExpectError") > -1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+}
+function breaks<T>(xs: T[], isStart: (T: any) => boolean): T[][] {
+    const result = [];
+    let group: T[] = [];
+    for (const x of xs) {
+        if (isStart(x)) {
+            if (group.length) {
+                result.push(group);
+            }
+            group = [x];
+        }
+        else {
+            group.push(x);
+        }
+    }
+    if (group.length) {
+        result.push(group);
+    }
+    return result;
 }