diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-state.R b/tests/testthat/helper-state.R
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+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-state.R
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+testthat::set_state_inspector(function() {
+  list(
+    attached = search(),
+    connections = nrow(showConnections()),
+    cwd = getwd(),
+    envvars = Sys.getenv(),
+    libpaths = .libPaths(),
+    locale = Sys.getlocale(),
+    options = .Options,
+    packages = .packages(all.available = TRUE),
+    NULL
+  )
+})