Writing Gherkin is like cooking. Adding too many or wrong ingredients will ruin the taste.

Gherin-Lint finds common antipatterns in Gherkin and suggests solutions.

Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away. --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Feature description
• Rules section in description
• No Emotions (Given I want...)
• Single When steps
• No When or Then in Background
• No UI speak (click, etc)
• No UI speak in Scenario Outline
• No "or" in steps
• Short scenarios (more than 5 steps)
• Short sentences
• Few scenarios in a Feature file
• Use And (Given, Given)
• Backwards (Given, When, Given)
• Small DataTable (avoid incidental detail)
• Small Examples table (avoid incidental detail)
• Few arguments (many "xxx" pairs or numbers)
• Few comments

Gherkin-lint is a ruby library with a UNIX-like CLI:

gherkin-lint [file ...]

It prints out problems in machine-readable format.