In this article, we will discuss the extent to which you can test
applications on your Mac rather than the. This could be useful for many
reasons, sometimes you may not have a jailbroken but want to get a POC
for a vulnerability. We will discuss what are the things you can and
cannot do. To test the application on your system, you will need to have
Xcode installed on your system and you will run the applications on the
iOS simulator.
Installing ipa files from iTunes on your simulator
Sadly, there is no way you can do that. This is because the iTunesapplications are compiled for the ARM platform whereas the applications
that run on your simulator are compiled for the x86/x64 platform. So, to
test any application properly on your Mac, you must have the source
code of the application to run it on the simulator.
Read more at mSeclabs team website :
mSeclabs Mobiquant iOS Application Security Part 40 – Testing apps on your Mac | mSeclabs Mobile Security
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