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The Behaviour Specification Handbook
General Tips
Use Present Tense
Behaviour Specification Descriptions and steps tend to make more logical sense when written in the present tense, because they are describing the most up-to-date, current, at the present time, expected behaviour. If a description or step is written in the past or future tense, then it does not represent the current, as-built, living documentation of the component.