If you do impromptu writing of BDD steps in your scenarios you will experience a broad variety of wordings for the same thing. Sometimes its just because you switched between present tense, past tense or future.
Having a best practice at hand for choosing the right tense will at least reduce the number of varieties. My recommendation is:
@Given - Past Tense
@Given describes a precondition. Something that already should have happened. Thus my recommendation is to use Past Tense here.
@When - Present Tense
@When describes an action you do just right now. I think Present Tense matches here very well.
@Then - Future
@Then describes an expected state you will reach. I think Future fits here best.
What do you think?
And what about you? Do you have any standards here?
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