@thirstybear to answer your first question, depends on the language.

#Kotlin allows you to have plain text in the test name using `backticks for the string's delimiters` <-- that is a valid test name!

For other languages, I introduced the describe/it pair into rspec long ago (when I wrote rbehave which begat the rspec story runner which begat Cucumber, the last of its name, which begat SpecFlow, which begat Reqnroll, etc.).

describe(YourThing) {
it("does something useful") {
...

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