diff --git a/tests/basics/tuple1.py b/tests/basics/tuple1.py
index 2993391d53..a7956c1072 100644
--- a/tests/basics/tuple1.py
+++ b/tests/basics/tuple1.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ print(x[2:3])
 
 print(x + (10, 100, 10000))
 
+# inplace add operator
+x += (10, 11, 12)
+print(x)
+
 # construction of tuple from large iterator (tests implementation detail of uPy)
 print(tuple(range(20)))