I have inherited a lot of old code which uses @future methods for doing DML operations. Is there any benefit to doing this? The only thing I can think of is in case there are a lot of records to be updated but I thought @future methods were only really used for callouts.
 

Is it possible to create a ValidatedFromAddress for testing purposes when setting up my test data? I am currently using actual ValidatedFromAddresses in my test but when I move from my sandbox the addresses change which means I have to manually change them. 

Thanks! 

I have inherited a lot of old code which uses @future methods for doing DML operations. Is there any benefit to doing this? The only thing I can think of is in case there are a lot of records to be updated but I thought @future methods were only really used for callouts.