diff --git a/examples/examples_test.go b/examples/examples_test.go
index 0e0f9e5bdeb..c30e8934159 100644
--- a/examples/examples_test.go
+++ b/examples/examples_test.go
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/testapi"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/validation"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/experimental"
+	expValidation "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/experimental/validation"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/capabilities"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/yaml"
@@ -99,6 +101,11 @@ func validateObject(obj runtime.Object) (errors []error) {
 			t.Namespace = api.NamespaceDefault
 		}
 		errors = validation.ValidateResourceQuota(t)
+	case *experimental.Deployment:
+		if t.Namespace == "" {
+			t.Namespace = api.NamespaceDefault
+		}
+		errors = expValidation.ValidateDeployment(t)
 	default:
 		return []error{fmt.Errorf("no validation defined for %#v", obj)}
 	}
@@ -343,6 +350,9 @@ func TestExampleObjectSchemas(t *testing.T) {
 		"../examples/fibre_channel": {
 			"fc": &api.Pod{},
 		},
+		"../examples/experimental": {
+			"deployment": &experimental.Deployment{},
+		},
 	}
 
 	capabilities.SetForTests(capabilities.Capabilities{
@@ -369,7 +379,11 @@ func TestExampleObjectSchemas(t *testing.T) {
 				}
 				//TODO: Add validate method for &schedulerapi.Policy
 			} else {
-				if err := testapi.Default.Codec().DecodeInto(data, expectedType); err != nil {
+				codec, err := testapi.GetCodecForObject(expectedType)
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("Could not get codec for %s: %s", expectedType, err)
+				}
+				if err := codec.DecodeInto(data, expectedType); err != nil {
 					t.Errorf("%s did not decode correctly: %v\n%s", path, err, string(data))
 					return
 				}
diff --git a/examples/experimental/deployment.yaml b/examples/experimental/deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..19bbfe32a97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/experimental/deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-deployment
+  labels:
+    name: nginx-deployment
+spec:
+  replicas: 3
+  selector:
+    name: nginx
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        name: nginx
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: nginx
+        image: nginx
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 80
diff --git a/pkg/api/testapi/testapi.go b/pkg/api/testapi/testapi.go
index 8bd0248d7e5..bbf0c9265c7 100644
--- a/pkg/api/testapi/testapi.go
+++ b/pkg/api/testapi/testapi.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/install"
 	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apis/experimental/install"
 
@@ -208,3 +209,21 @@ func (g TestGroup) ResourcePath(resource, namespace, name string) string {
 func (g TestGroup) RESTMapper() meta.RESTMapper {
 	return latest.GroupOrDie(g.Group).RESTMapper
 }
+
+// Get codec based on runtime.Object
+func GetCodecForObject(obj runtime.Object) (runtime.Codec, error) {
+	_, kind, err := api.Scheme.ObjectVersionAndKind(obj)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected encoding error: %v", err)
+	}
+	// TODO: caesarxuchao: we should detect which group an object belongs to
+	// by using the version returned by Schem.ObjectVersionAndKind() once we
+	// split the schemes for internal objects.
+	// TODO: caesarxuchao: we should add a map from kind to group in Scheme.
+	for _, group := range Groups {
+		if api.Scheme.Recognizes(group.GroupAndVersion(), kind) {
+			return group.Codec(), nil
+		}
+	}
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected kind: %v", kind)
+}