Not sure how this answers my question. The problem is that I try to avoid extra work to assert a variable having to do anything. Groovy seems to be strange that it treats the original variable different when it is copied into another. As you can see from the examples I have given, it is both times the exact same test. The only difference that when I use the original variable for assert, it also displays a lot of junk after it, but when I copy it into another variable first and then do an assert, it doesn't. I just wonder if there is something that can be done to stop this behaviour.
