Introduction

Given-When-Then With Style was a series of articles published from June 2020 to May 2021, covering patterns, tips and tricks for writing executable specifications using Given-When-Then statements, then the most popular format for supporting Specification by Example.

The series of Given-When-Then With Style articles evolved through community challenges. People proposed difficult tasks they had writing scenarios. Once per week, a new community challenge went online inviting contributors to submit ideas for solving particularly tricky aspects of structuring and organising examples into scenario and feature descriptions. Members of the community wrote in with their ideas, voted for suggestions, and even published auxiliary blog posts to explain their ideas in detail. Interesting ideas and solutions were published the following week, as a summary of the challenge, along with commentary and further ideas. The community challenges were originally coordinated and edited by Gojko Adzic.

The original web site where the articles were published is no longer online, and the articles are now republished here with author’s permission. Instead of splitting challenges and solutions, the articles below provide quick access to both. Apart from that, and minor editing to update web references, the content is as when it was published.