NativeScript
diff --git a/tests/app/testRunner.ts b/tests/app/testRunner.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ export function isRunningOnEmulator(): boolean {
 
 export const allTests = {};
 
+import * as tsTests from "./typescript/ts-tests";
+allTests["TYPESCRIPT"] = tsTests;
+
 import * as domNodeTest from "./debugger/dom-node-tests";
 allTests["DOM-NODE"] = domNodeTest;
 

diff --git a/tests/app/typescript/ts-tests.ts b/tests/app/typescript/ts-tests.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import * as TKUnit from "../TKUnit";
+
+export function test_typescript_spread_operator() {
+    const a = { first: "test1", second: "test2" };
+    const b = { ...a, second: "newValue" };
+
+    TKUnit.assertEqual(b.first, "test1");
+    TKUnit.assertEqual(b.second, "newValue");
+}
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/globals/globals.ts b/tns-core-modules/globals/globals.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Required by TypeScript compiler
-require("./decorators");
+require("./ts-helpers");
 
 // Required by V8 snapshot generator
 if (!global.__extends) {

diff --git a/tns-core-modules/globals/decorators.ts → tns-core-modules/globals/ts-helpers.ts b/tns-core-modules/globals/decorators.ts → tns-core-modules/globals/ts-helpers.ts
@@ -30,3 +30,17 @@ if (typeof (<any>global).__param !== "function") {
         return function (target, key) { decorator(target, key, paramIndex); }
     };
 }
+
+if (typeof (<any>global).__assign !== "function") {
+    (<any>global).__assign = Object.assign || function (t) {
+        for (var s, i = 1, n = arguments.length; i < n; i++) {
+            s = arguments[i];
+            for (var p in s) {
+                if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(s, p)) {
+                    t[p] = s[p];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return t;
+    };
+}