How abstract should you get with BDD

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Published on 2012-05-30T16:56:08Z Indexed on 2012/06/01 4:49 UTC
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I was writing some tests in Gherkin (using Cucumber/Specflow). I was wondering how abstract should I get with my tests.

In order to not make this open-ended, which of the following statements is better for BDD:

Given I am logged in with email [email protected] and password 12345
When I do something
Then something happens

as opposed to

Given I am logged in as the Administrator
When I do something
Then something happens

The reason I am confused is because 1 is more based on the behaviour (filing in email and password) and 2 is easier to process and write the tests.

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