diff --git a/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentTests.cs b/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c408c759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Octokit.Tests/Models/DeploymentTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+using Octokit.Internal;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Octokit.Tests.Models
+{
+    public class DeploymentTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void CanDeserialize()
+        {
+            var expected = new Deployment {
+                Id = 1,
+                Sha = "topic-branch",
+                Url = "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1",
+                Payload = "{\"environment\":\"production\"}",
+                CreatedAt = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"),
+                UpdatedAt = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"),
+                Description = "Deploy request from hubot",
+                StatusesUrl = "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1/statuses"
+            };
+
+            var json = 
+                @"{
+                    ""id"": 1,
+                    ""sha"": ""topic-branch"",
+                    ""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1"",
+                    ""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\""}"",
+                    ""created_at"": ""2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"",
+                    ""updated_at"": ""2012-07-20T01:19:13Z"",
+                    ""description"": ""Deploy request from hubot"",
+                    ""statuses_url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/1/statuses""
+                }";
+
+            var actual = new SimpleJsonSerializer().Deserialize<Deployment>(json);
+
+            Assert.Equal(expected, actual, new DeploymentEqualityComparer());
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Equaliy for the sake of testing serialization/deserialization.
+    // Actual production equality should most likely just be a check
+    // of `Url` equality.
+    public class DeploymentEqualityComparer : IEqualityComparer<Deployment>
+    {
+        public bool Equals(Deployment x, Deployment y)
+        {
+            if (x == null && y == null)
+                return true;
+
+            if (x == null || y == null)
+                return false;
+
+            return x.Id == y.Id &&
+                   x.Sha == y .Sha &&
+                   x.Url == y.Url &&
+                   x.Payload == y.Payload &&
+                   x.CreatedAt == y.CreatedAt &&
+                   x.UpdatedAt == y.UpdatedAt &&
+                   x.Description == y.Description &&
+                   x.StatusesUrl == y.StatusesUrl;
+        }
+
+        public int GetHashCode(Deployment obj)
+        {
+            throw new NotImplementedException();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj b/Octokit.Tests/Octokit.Tests.csproj
index 2a3a9e95..a4bc2d5b 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\DeploymentTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\NewReferenceTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\MilestoneRequestTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Models\IssueRequestTests.cs" />