diff --git a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
index f7c399e..aa92777 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
@@ -701,8 +701,12 @@
             finally:
                 support.forget(pkg_name)
                 sys.path.pop()
-            assert doctest.DocTestFinder().find(mod) == []
 
+            include_empty_finder = doctest.DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=False)
+            exclude_empty_finder = doctest.DocTestFinder(exclude_empty=True)
+
+            self.assertEqual(len(include_empty_finder.find(mod)), 1)
+            self.assertEqual(len(exclude_empty_finder.find(mod)), 0)
 
 def test_DocTestParser(): r"""
 Unit tests for the `DocTestParser` class.