Conjunction Steps (Antipattern)

From the online Merriam-Webster dictionary:

con·junc·tion :an uninflected linguistic form that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words

Don’t do this in steps. It makes steps too specialised and hard to reuse. Cucumber has built-in support for conjunctions (And, But) for a reason.

Example

Given I have shades and a brand new Mustang

How to fix

Given I have shades
And I have a brand new Mustang

When conjunction steps are OK

Sometimes you may want to combine several steps into one to make your scenarios easier to read. Calling Steps from Step Definitions makes this possible, but make your life simpler by making the called steps atomic.