This example does not look convincing: website.createUrl("styles.css").getHttpContent(60).assertContains("img.jpg"); My preference would be: var styles

This example does not look convincing: website.createUrl("styles.css").getHttpContent(60).assertContains("img.jpg"); My preference would be: var stylesheet = http.get(website.resolve(“style.css”)).asString(); assertThat(stylesheet, contains(“img.jpg”)); Why? Fluent interfaces are good as internal DSL, where semantics of calls are clear and where readability is improved, because it looks closer to the natural language. This means that subject remains the same if you use multiple verbs. Just chaining several imperative statements does not add much value and only complicates debugging.