The pros of functional testing are the following:
- It can validate semi-real users' requests, meaning requests that are very close to what actual user requests look like.
- It can validate the general functionality of a service/application.
- It is not specific to the internal functions of an application.
- It can validate new releases and verify whether specific client versions are still compatible.
The cons of functional testing are the following:
- It does not help much with finding errors.
- It may interfere with existing data when testing database inserts.
- Problems may not be related to the current test.
Functional tests struggle to pin down the issues rather than helping you to reproduce it. Since functional tests ...
