At my company, we (developers) tend to develop mainly automated functional tests and we test our product in blackbox mode. I also prefer favouring functional te

At my company, we (developers) tend to develop mainly automated functional tests and we test our product in blackbox mode. I also prefer favouring functional tests and found that actually many integration tests become useless. For unit tests, I keep that for pieces of code that are used thoroughly in different contexts, i.e, actually code that could be turned into an external library and/or code that is hard to test in integration/functional tests => it makes non-regression much faster to test. For blackbox mode, I am not that convinced that it is the proper strategy, especially when the product is being built incrementally. The typical example is when an entity state is being modified in a UC and the function to test the state is not yet developped. I'd prefer in that case to have the test verify that the state has been properly updated directly in DB.