Try incremental analysis before limiting invalidation.

pkg/analyzer/test/generated/incremental_resolver_test.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 library engine.incremental_resolver_test;
 
 import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/ast.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/element.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/engine.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/error.dart';
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     _resolveUnit(r'''
 /// aaa bbb
 main() {
   return 1;
 }
 ''');
     _updateAndValidate(r'''
 /// aaa [main] bbb
 /// ccc [int] ddd
 main() {
-  return 2;
+  return 1;
 }
 ''');
   }
 
   void test_dartDoc_elegant_removeReference() {
     _resolveUnit(r'''
 /// aaa [main] bbb
 /// ccc [int] ddd
 main() {
   return 1;
 }
 ''');
     _updateAndValidate(r'''
 /// aaa bbb
 main() {
-  return 2;
+  return 1;
 }
 ''');
   }
 
   void test_dartDoc_elegant_updateText_insertToken() {
     _resolveUnit(r'''
 /// A
 /// [int]
 class Test {
 }
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     return ResolutionContextBuilder.contextFor(node, listener).scope;
   }
 }
 
 class _Edit {
   final int offset;
   final int length;
   final String replacement;
   _Edit(this.offset, this.length, this.replacement);
 }