Because the Gherkin format is fairly simple, givens are broken out to one per contextual criterion. As part of specifying the context, we want to see any and all preconditions of this scenario. Is the user logged in? Does the user have any special rights? Does this scenario require any settings to be put into force before execution? Has the user provided any input on this scenario? One more thing to consider is that there should only be a small number of givens.

The more givens that are present in a scenario, the more likely it is that the scenario is too big or that the givens can somehow be logically grouped to reduce the count.