You need to understand what are we changing here to test #2: We are executing actions between steps to ensure all the DOM and the JS is ready, this is done using hooks at step level A step that returns chained steps is this: http://docs.behat.org/guides/2.definitions.html#step-execution-chaining They are very useful and we use them widely The hooks are not being executed between the chained steps Test 1 Run behat locally, all the tests should pass. Test 2 Run a behat feature using --format pretty Read the .feature file and the output generated by behat For each .feature file step: You should look for the definition of that feature If it is not returning chained steps the step SHOULD appear in the output generated by behat If it is returning chained steps you should find each of the chained step definitions until you find the "lower level" ones (the ones that don't return other steps) and check that they appear on the output