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When writing a groovy test case you almost want to be concise and expressive… next time you’ll see the test you must undestand it quickly.

Here’s a small tip to enhance test writing.

Having  :

def car = new Car()
def jack = new People()
def tom = new Cat();

Instead of writing somethings like :

car.addPeople ( people )
car.addCat ( tom )

it’s really simpler to write:

car += jack
car += tom

To achieve this it’s as easy as writing a plus method in you model object.

public Object plus(Object o) {
  if(o instanceof People) {
     this.addPeople((People)o);
  }
  if(o instanceof Cat) {
     this.addCat((Cat)o);
  }
  return this;
}

Just remember this method must return this.

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