The initiative to integration Behat into Drupal 8 core (for automated front-end testing) requires the addition of a new libraries to the core composer.json file.
Specifically:
"require-dev": {
"drupal/drupal-extension": "v1.0.2"
},
must be added. This will in turn bring in the required Mink and Behat dependencies. This is a pre-requisite for the core Behat module, which is being worked on in #2232271: [Meta] Use Behat for validation testing.