Question 1

How do you handle the mobile app audit process?

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It depends on the state of your current application and the type of mobile applications audit, but this is the universal guideline of cooperation that helps us achieve the best results:  Technical interview: We need to find out if it is an existing mobile application or in the state of development and what the main goals of the audit are. Strengthening cooperation: Sign the risk-free agreement to start an advanced audit of your mobile applications so you can get to know the current state of it in detail. Gathering information: The preparation for an audit requires gathering comprehensive information for the mobile app testing company on the IT system and its infrastructure. Conducting a mobile app audit: It takes our development team around 2-3 days to check your mobile application carefully, following the given type of audit method. Preparing the report: Typically, the report is a 12-20-page A4 document created within 2 weeks of signing the audit order and providing the prerequisites.   Proposing the recommendations: After the audit, you know what is necessary to improve. We can guide you through the next steps of implementing our advice or take care of them instead.

Question 2

What is taken into account during the app audit process?

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During the audit process, the auditing team analyzes the mobile application using the top-to-bottom approach, focusing on areas specified upfront, like technical overview, security, etc. The main areas of mobile application audit are:  Mobile app architecture: The first part of an audit is dedicated to the project architecture. During this phase, the audit team specifies high-level elements. Code quality: The second phase of the audit focuses on code quality, depending on the conclusions from the architecture analysis. Mobile app performance: This part of the audit focuses on the performance of the mobile applications. Security analysis in a mobile app: The fourth phase is related to the security analysis and considers any potential risks and threats to both users and the whole application security testing Maintenance of the code: This part helps to answer whether the application development process is professionally structured and if there will be potential problems during further development or the takeover process to another development team.

Question 3

What do you check in the technical audit?

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This type of audit is made to assess the overall code quality and system architecture. As an independent team/testing company, we are able to ensure that the efforts of the main app development teams are appropriately focused and that no technical debt is incurred.

Question 4

What do you check in the security audit?

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This type of audit is often performed before integrating the new solution with existing infrastructure to understand better the risks it can bring to the working product. Mobile app security testing helps identify some quick red flags and lists potential threats that need to be addressed and/or monitored after the integration.   It would then be subject to the business owner's decision on handling potential leaks and security flaws and how much your mobile application is vulnerable to hacker attacks on different operating systems.

Question 5

What do you check in the discovery audit?

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This is a type of audit that allows the business owner to understand what digital asset they possess, what it consists of (native vs. cross platforms), and the overall quality of the mobile application.

Question 6

What do you check in migration audit?

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This type of audit helps analyze the code with a clear target to prepare a better roadmap for product migration into a new platform/language. It is often a case when companies are shifting their mobile applications from an all-native approach focusing on iOS and Android operating systems to using cross-platform solutions like Flutter or React Native.   This mobile app audit allows giving recommendations for the specific app migration strategy, possibly including the add-to-app approach, a popular strategy when changing the development platform to Flutter.

Question 7

What can I expect after a mobile app audit?

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The mobile app audit is a very formal process with a clear outcome in the shape of the audit report. Such a report provides insights into the areas mentioned in this article. It gives an extensive executive summary for the business owners, where they need to implement the most critical issues and recommended solutions. The summary greatly depends on the type of audit, whether this is purely technical, discovery or security, or migration audit. The report from the mobile app audit can also be used as a justification for further implementation and approval for the development team or as instruction on what should be done to reach better quality standards. Typically the report is a 12-20 pages long A4 document and gets created within 2 weeks from signing the audit order and providing the prerequisites.

Question 8

What is the price of the mobile app audit?

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Clients often ask us how much the mobile audit costs. We answer that the price depends on the type of audit, with discovery audits being typically the cheapest and starting from $1600 for 2 days-long processes. The price for more advanced mobile audits, with complex deliverables like the AddToApp roadmap, can be higher. During the estimations, we need to understand the background and project tech stack (native vs. cross-platform solutions using Flutter).

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