> What are the downsides of of using a real API (e.g. dev > environment) for automated testing? It can be difficult to recreate the situations required to

> What are the downsides of of using a real API (e.g. dev > environment) for automated testing? It can be difficult to recreate the situations required to produce particular responses, and if you are using this development environment to deploy backend fixes, downtimes or bugs will sometimes block the engineering work of your UI team.