Use `given` in `__setup__` function

As a StarkNet smart contract developer, I want to use given in the __setup__ function to run a suite of tests on a contract that’s been initiated by fuzzed parameters.

In particular, I need to initiate random contract state using fuzzing, however, this initialization is by far the most expensive action in my contract suite. I would like to ideally run it in advance of tests rather than run it separately for each test where I need to use fuzzing.

Is there a way to hack this or do I have to just rely on individual setup functions to use fuzzing?

[mkaput]

Oh, now I understand what’s going on. Unfortunately, this idea is quite contradictory to the way how Protostar’s test runner works under the hood (fuzzer is spun for each test_* function separately, and it wraps single function, setups are running in their own context which is different from test cases ones). Therefore, I don’t think we will ever support such use case in Protostar, at least not in this shape of the codebase (the only solution that comes to my mind is adding something like sub-test-cases, which sounds strange?).

As a workaround, I wonder if it wouldn’t work for you if you stick with a single test case and eventually chop it into multiple subroutines. Yes, I know this is suboptimal, because you have single test, which runs sequentially and failure in one subroutine stops executing others, but it should still be helpful in successful case.

[Pet3ris]

Thanks @mkaput - yeah I’ll consider that, no worries. Completely understand the limitation.