diff --git a/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentStatusTests.cs b/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentStatusTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a8b295d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentStatusTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+using Octokit.Internal;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Octokit.Tests.Models
+{
+    public class DeploymentStatusTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void CanDeserialize()
+        {
+            var expected = new DeploymentStatus
+            {
+                Id = 1,
+                Url = "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1/statuses/42",
+                State = DeploymentState.Success,
+                Payload = "{\"environment\":\"production\"}",
+                TargetUrl = "https://gist.github.com/628b2736d379f",
+                CreatedAt = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"),
+                UpdatedAt = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"),
+                Description = "Deploy request from hubot"
+            };
+
+            var json =
+            @"{
+              ""id"": 1,
+              ""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1/statuses/42"",
+              ""state"": ""success"",
+              ""creator"": {
+                ""login"": ""octocat"",
+                ""id"": 1,
+                ""avatar_url"": ""https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif"",
+                ""gravatar_id"": ""somehexcode"",
+                ""url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat"",
+                ""html_url"": ""https://github.com/octocat"",
+                ""followers_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers"",
+                ""following_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}"",
+                ""gists_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}"",
+                ""starred_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}"",
+                ""subscriptions_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions"",
+                ""organizations_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs"",
+                ""repos_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos"",
+                ""events_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}"",
+                ""received_events_url"": ""https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events"",
+                ""type"": ""User"",
+                ""site_admin"": false
+              },
+              ""payload"": ""{\""environment\"":\""production\""}"",
+              ""target_url"": ""https://gist.github.com/628b2736d379f"",
+              ""created_at"": ""2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"",
+              ""updated_at"": ""2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"",
+              ""description"": ""Deploy request from hubot""
+            }";
+
+            var actual = new SimpleJsonSerializer().Deserialize<DeploymentStatus>(json);
+
+            Assert.Equal(expected, actual, new DeploymentStatusEqualityComparer());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public class DeploymentStatusEqualityComparer : IEqualityComparer<DeploymentStatus>
+    {
+        public bool Equals(DeploymentStatus x, DeploymentStatus y)
+        {
+            if (x == null && y == null)
+                return true;
+            if (x == null || y == null)
+                return false;
+
+            return x.Id == y.Id &&
+                   x.Url == y.Url &&
+                   x.State == y.State &&
+                   x.Payload == y.Payload &&
+                   x.TargetUrl == y.TargetUrl &&
+                   x.CreatedAt == y.CreatedAt &&
+                   x.UpdatedAt == y.UpdatedAt &&
+                   x.Description == y.Description;
+        }
+
+        public int GetHashCode(DeploymentStatus obj)
+        {
+            throw new System.NotImplementedException();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj b/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj
index a4bc2d5b..9b1db587 100644
--- a/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj
+++ b/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Http\ResponseTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Http\RequestTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\CommitTests.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Models\DeploymentStatusTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\DeploymentTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\NewReferenceTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\MilestoneRequestTests.cs" />