Advantages of Structural Testing

• It provides thorough testing of the software.
• It helps in finding out defects at an early stage.
• It helps in elimination of dead code.
• It is not time consuming as it is mostly automated.

Structural testing is a type of software testing that uses the internal design of the software for testing or in other words the software testing which is performed by the team which knows the development phase of the software, is known as structural testing.

Structural testing is related to the internal design and implementation of the software i.e. it involves the development team members in the testing team. It tests different aspects of the software according to its types. Structural testing is just the opposite of behavioral testing.