Chain tests in mocha framework with smart contract testing

Question

I am doing smart contract testing with hardat and mocha framework. Suppose I have two following it blocks testing contract A.

it('test1', () => {
  contractA.updateValue(val);
  // some other testing code
});
it('test2', () => {
  contractA.useUpdatedValue();
  // some other testing code
}); 

Here, contracA is defined in the global scope. Is there a way to persist the smart contract state in test1 and then do test2 to use the updated state of the smart contract?

Answer 1

You need to wrap them in a one describe block and inside put a before block and inside that deploy those contracts.

Here is one of my repos to show how I do it: https://github.com/Kuly14/DJED/blob/main/test/unit/StableCoin.test.ts#L8

I hope this helps.