Mobile Penetration Testing

Mobile penetration testing is a hands-on security test of an app by a human tester. The tester reverse-engineers the build, runs it on a device and tries to break it the way a real attacker would, then writes up what they found and how to fix it.

Automated testing covers a wide set of checks on every release; a penetration test goes deeper on the app-specific logic that automation cannot reason about. The two work best together. See manual pentest.