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Imagine downloading an app, and inputting your personal data, and a hacker in seconds finds a flaw to steal your information. Sounds scary, right? And today, mobile app security is no longer an add-on, it’s the basis for user trust and business integrity.

With over 6.1 billion smartphone users expected by 2028, how will your app be unique in a highly saturated and competitive environment? It is all about proper mobile app testing, or rather, the lack of it in most cases. Good usability and high-level user experience are the major factors in the current conditions of market competition. That is where tools like emulators and simulators are really useful. They’re the backbone of testing and aid developers in ensuring functionality, performance, and usability. Imitating Android devices is slightly easier than iOS devices because it comes up with a reliable testing environment and mimics both Android software and hardware.

The aim of mobile application penetration testing is primarily to boost the security posture of mobile applications and make sure that these mobile applications are secured against cyber threats. It includes the process for both Android and iOS applications and the not-so-popular BlackBerry and Windows Phone.

Outsourcing mobile app testing means that the organization contracts with a third party to do the extensive testing of the mobile application. These vendors are well equipped to identify problems within different areas, such as functional, effective, perceptual, security, and compatibility problems.

Since the use of mobile technology is set to advance further, testing these real devices is crucial and requires effective and efficient methods. The true concept of mobile device testing guarantees that applications perform optimally on various devices.

The software testing in earlier times was a purely manual method, which was quite labor-intensive and included a high chance of errors. Over the years, the complexity of systems led to the need for a better and more effective method for testing these software systems. This is where automation testing transforms the face of software testing. First, automation was used for unit tests or simple checks of the components of a system that are not connected with other components.