diff --git a/scripts/tools/combine-tools.js b/scripts/tools/combine-tools.js
index 2fd0ef70d1c..6cd1d51ef9c 100644
--- a/scripts/tools/combine-tools.js
+++ b/scripts/tools/combine-tools.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ const schema = require("./tools-schema.json");
 const Ajv = require("ajv")
 const addFormats = require("ajv-formats")
 const Fuse = require("fuse.js");
-const { error } = require("console");
 const ajv = new Ajv()
 addFormats(ajv, ["uri"])
 const validate = ajv.compile(schema)
@@ -142,8 +141,6 @@ const combineTools = async (automatedTools, manualTools, toolsPath, tagsPath) =>
     } catch (err) {
         throw new Error(`Error combining tools: ${err}`);
     }
-    fs.writeFileSync(toolsPath,JSON.stringify(finalTools));
-    fs.writeFileSync(tagsPath,JSON.stringify({ languages: languageList, technologies: technologyList }),)
 }
 
 module.exports = { combineTools }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/combineToolsData.js b/tests/fixtures/combineToolsData.js
index c4a0021cc42..30ef6102979 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/combineToolsData.js
+++ b/tests/fixtures/combineToolsData.js
@@ -192,12 +192,6 @@ const automatedToolsT12 = {
     }
 };
 
-const invalidManualToolsT13 = {
-    category1: {
-        toolsList: [{ title: 'Invalid Tool' }]
-    }
-};
-
 module.exports = {
     expectedDataT1,
     manualToolsWithMissingData,
@@ -211,7 +205,6 @@ module.exports = {
     manualToolsT8,
     automatedToolsT9,
     manualToolsT9,
-    invalidManualToolsT13,
     circularTool,
     automatedToolsT12,
     invalidAutomatedToolsT10,
diff --git a/tests/tools/combine-tools.test.js b/tests/tools/combine-tools.test.js
index d2c1345a670..78fee5441b2 100644
--- a/tests/tools/combine-tools.test.js
+++ b/tests/tools/combine-tools.test.js
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ const {
   manualToolsT8,
   automatedToolsT9,
   manualToolsT9,
-  invalidManualToolsT13,
   automatedToolsT12,
   invalidAutomatedToolsT10,
   manualToolsWithInvalidURLT11,
   circularTool
-} = require('../fixtures/combineToolsData')
+} = require('../fixtures/combineToolsData');
 
 jest.mock('ajv', () => {
   return jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
@@ -209,51 +208,53 @@ describe('combineTools function', () => {
   });
 
   it('should throw an error when fs.writeFileSync fails', async () => {
+    let error;
     let invalidPath = "this/is/not/valid"
 
     try {
       await combineTools(automatedTools, manualTools, invalidPath, invalidPath);
     } catch (err) {
+      error = err;
       expect(err.message).toMatch(/ENOENT|EACCES/);
     }
+    expect(error).toBeDefined();
   });
 
   it('should throw an error when there is an invalid category', async () => {
+    let error;
 
     try {
       await combineTools(invalidAutomatedToolsT10, manualTools, toolsPath, tagsPath);
     } catch (err) {
+      error = err;
       expect(err.message).toContain('Error combining tools');
     }
+    expect(error).toBeDefined();
   });
 
   it('should throw an error when URL parsing fails', async () => {
+    let error;
 
     try {
       await combineTools(automatedTools, manualToolsWithInvalidURLT11, toolsPath, tagsPath);
     } catch (err) {
+      error = err;
       expect(err.message).toContain('Invalid URL');
     }
+    expect(error).toBeDefined();
   });
 
   it('should handle errors when processing tools with circular references', async () => {
-
+    let error;
     circularTool.circular = circularTool;
 
     try {
       await combineTools(automatedToolsT12, {}, toolsPath, tagsPath);
     } catch (err) {
+      error = err;
       expect(err.message).toContain('Converting circular structure to JSON');
     }
-  });
-
-  it('should throw an error when invalid manualTools data is passed', async () => {
-
-    try {
-      await combineTools(automatedTools, invalidManualToolsT13, toolsPath, tagsPath);
-    } catch (err) {
-      expect(err.message).toBe('Error processing tool: Cannot read property \'language\' of undefined');
-    }
+    expect(error).toBeDefined();
   });
   
 });