diff --git a/lib/rules/no-empty-description.js b/lib/rules/no-empty-description.js
index d40932b..320f270 100644
--- a/lib/rules/no-empty-description.js
+++ b/lib/rules/no-empty-description.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { getStringIfConstant } = require('eslint-utils');
+const { getStringIfConstant, getStaticValue } = require('eslint-utils');
 
 const DEFAULT_TEST_NAMES = [ 'describe', 'context', 'suite', 'it', 'test', 'specify' ];
 const ERROR_MESSAGE = 'Unexpected empty test description.';
@@ -55,14 +55,22 @@ module.exports = {
             return [ 'TaggedTemplateExpression', 'TemplateLiteral' ].includes(node && node.type);
         }
 
+        function isIdentifier(node) {
+            return node && node.type === 'Identifier';
+        }
+
         function checkDescription(mochaCallExpression) {
             const description = mochaCallExpression.arguments[0];
-            const text = getStringIfConstant(description);
+            const text = getStringIfConstant(description, context.getScope());
 
             if (isTemplateString(description) && text === null) {
                 return true;
             }
 
+            if (isIdentifier(description) && text === null) {
+                return true;
+            }
+
             return text && text.trim().length;
         }
 
diff --git a/test/rules/no-empty-description.js b/test/rules/no-empty-description.js
index 3faa7b1..a6d979a 100644
--- a/test/rules/no-empty-description.js
+++ b/test/rules/no-empty-description.js
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ ruleTester.run('no-empty-description', rules['no-empty-description'], {
         'test.only("some text")',
         'test("some text", function() { })',
 
+        'var dynamicTitle = "foo"; it(dynamicTitle, function() {});',
+        'it(dynamicTitle, function() {});',
+
         'notTest()',
 
         {
@@ -46,6 +49,10 @@ ruleTester.run('no-empty-description', rules['no-empty-description'], {
         {
             options: [ { testNames: [ 'someFunction' ] } ],
             code: 'someFunction("this is a test", function () { });'
+        },
+        {
+            parserOptions: { ecmaVersion: 2019 },
+            code: 'const dynamicTitle = "foo"; it(dynamicTitle, function() {});'
         }
     ],
 
@@ -76,6 +83,11 @@ ruleTester.run('no-empty-description', rules['no-empty-description'], {
             parserOptions: { ecmaVersion: 2019 },
             code: 'it(` `, function () { });',
             errors: [ { message: defaultErrorMessage, ...firstLine } ]
+        },
+        {
+            parserOptions: { ecmaVersion: 2019 },
+            code: 'const foo = ""; it(foo);',
+            errors: [ { message: defaultErrorMessage, line: 1, column: 17 } ]
         }
     ]