Testing against local network vs testnet

Question

I have a simple test to mint tokens on a newly deployed contract.

While developing, I was testing locally and the test never failed. Now that the contract is deployed to the testnet, I get a 50% failure rate in my test.

I can check the contract on Snowtrace and see that the mint function was executed properly.

My question is why are the await's not being obeyed?

See the test in question:

it("should allow owner to mint tokens", async function () {
    await contract.deployed();
    await expect(() => contract.mint(bobAddress, fiveHundred))
    .to.changeTokenBalance(contract, bob, (500 * (10 ** (decimals))).toString());
  });

Answer 1

I truly think you should run the mint function first then use the wait method to wait for the transaction to succeed then use "expect" to check "bobAddress" has the fiveHundred amount in its balance :>

    await (await contract.mint(bobAddress, fiveHundred)).wait();

Answer 2

I ran into this as well. the solution is to wait for the value to update.

Since I work in Python, you'll need to translate this to JavaScript...

while contract.owner() != bob: # assuming bob is the owner.
    time.sleep(1)

contract.mint(etc, etc)

I'm pretty sure our development environments are interacting with the contracts before they are actually ready even if we do use async.