diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php b/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php
index 40d77463d39e..0528f7cec9a2 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php
+++ b/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php
@@ -58,6 +58,45 @@ public static function fromBaseResponse($response)
         return new static($response);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * JSON decode assoc and keep the empty object.
+     * @param string $json
+     * @link https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/25769
+     * @return mixed
+     */
+    public static function jsonDecodeKeepEmptyObject(string $json)
+    {
+        $patchEmptyObject = function ($array) use (&$patchEmptyObject) {
+
+            // If it is an empty class,it is reserved.
+            // Otherwise converted into an associative array.
+            if (is_object($array)) {
+                return empty((array) $array)
+                    ? $array
+                    : $patchEmptyObject((array) $array);
+            }
+
+            foreach ($array as $key => $item) {
+                // We recursively deal with each of these terms.
+                if (is_array($item)
+                    || is_object($item)
+                ) {
+                    $array[$key] = $patchEmptyObject($item);
+                }
+            }
+
+            return $array;
+        };
+
+        $stdClass = json_decode($json);
+
+        if ($stdClass === false) {
+            return $stdClass;
+        }
+
+        return $patchEmptyObject($stdClass);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Assert that the response has a successful status code.
      *
@@ -686,7 +725,7 @@ public function assertJsonMissingValidationErrors($keys)
      */
     public function decodeResponseJson($key = null)
     {
-        $decodedResponse = json_decode($this->getContent(), true);
+        $decodedResponse = static::jsonDecodeKeepEmptyObject($this->getContent());
 
         if (is_null($decodedResponse) || $decodedResponse === false) {
             if ($this->exception) {
diff --git a/tests/Foundation/FoundationTestResponseTest.php b/tests/Foundation/FoundationTestResponseTest.php
index a1ca2d748a24..7e2be68e43ef 100644
--- a/tests/Foundation/FoundationTestResponseTest.php
+++ b/tests/Foundation/FoundationTestResponseTest.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 use JsonSerializable;
 use Illuminate\Http\Response;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\View\View;
 use Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
@@ -258,6 +259,45 @@ public function testAssertJsonMissing()
         $response->assertJsonMissing(['id' => 20]);
     }
 
+    public function testAssertExactJson()
+    {
+        $response = new TestResponse((new JsonResponse([
+            'payload' => (object) [],
+            'a' => [],
+            'b' => (object) [],
+            'status' => 'success',
+            'data' => [
+                'name' => 'West Fannieland',
+                'updated_at' => '2018-10-05 20:48:11',
+                'created_at' => '2018-10-05 20:48:11',
+                'id' => 1,
+                'b' => (object) [],
+                'c' => [
+                    'b' => (object) [],
+                    'name' => 'albert',
+                ],
+            ],
+        ])));
+
+        $response->assertExactJson([
+            'payload' => (object) [],
+            'b' => (object) [],
+            'a' => [],
+            'status' => 'success',
+            'data' => [
+                'name' => 'West Fannieland',
+                'created_at' => '2018-10-05 20:48:11',
+                'id' => 1,
+                'b' => (object) [],
+                'c' => [
+                    'b' => (object) [],
+                    'name' => 'albert',
+                ],
+                'updated_at' => '2018-10-05 20:48:11',
+            ],
+        ]);
+    }
+
     public function testAssertJsonMissingExact()
     {
         $response = TestResponse::fromBaseResponse(new Response(new JsonSerializableSingleResourceWithIntegersStub));