diff --git a/test/parallel/test-string-decoder.js b/test/parallel/test-string-decoder.js
index 4d22d670f6..78f3a48b60 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-string-decoder.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-string-decoder.js
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ assert.strictEqual(decoder.write(Buffer.from('F1', 'hex')), '');
 assert.strictEqual(decoder.write(Buffer.from('41F2', 'hex')), '\ufffdA');
 assert.strictEqual(decoder.end(), '\ufffd');
 
+// Additional utf8Text test
+decoder = new StringDecoder('utf8');
+assert.strictEqual(decoder.text(Buffer.from([0x41]), 2), '');
 
 // Additional UTF-16LE surrogate pair tests
 decoder = new StringDecoder('utf16le');