diff --git a/ui/tests/unit/lib/kv-object-test.js b/ui/tests/unit/lib/kv-object-test.js
index e0d7c8cea794..1962829fd63c 100644
--- a/ui/tests/unit/lib/kv-object-test.js
+++ b/ui/tests/unit/lib/kv-object-test.js
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ toJSONTests.forEach(function([name, includeBlanks, input, output]) {
     let expected = JSON.stringify(output, null, 2);
     let data = KVObject.create({ content: [] }).fromJSON(input);
     let result = data.toJSONString(includeBlanks);
-    assert.deepEqual(result, expected, 'has expected output string');
+    assert.equal(result, expected, 'has expected output string');
   });
 });