Callum Trounce·May 3, 2022Embracing an experiment-oriented mindset at ASOSHow experiments have helped ASOS stay customer-obsessed and positioned us for success. You might not know it, but when shopping on ASOS, you likely experienced one of the hundreds of experiments we run. I want to talk about what experimentation means for us and how it enables us to live…Experimentation5 min readExperimentation5 min read
Paul Taylor·Apr 27, 2022Performance Testing for Peak @ ASOSIn this series of blog posts, we are going to talk through how we prepare for the Black Friday weekend, which we internally refer to as Peak at ASOS, so that we can provide the best experience for our customers over our busiest weekend. In the previous post , we…Testing7 min readTesting7 min read
Harjit Sandhu·Jul 10, 2019Member-onlyAutomated security testing using language you already knowWhen it comes to the conversation of security, there are many tools that can help us to aim for an optimum level of security. In short, threat modelling is the process of defining the risks in any given system, and then assigning controls given the best result in risk reduction…Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Tom Longhurst·Jun 25, 2019Behaviour driven automation testing in .NET Core using BDTestTests slow? Flaky? Hard to understand? I’m Tom, a QA Engineer in the ASOS Tech team, and if you’re familiar with any of the issues above, then I encourage you to read on. I joined ASOS Tech last year, entering the Saved Items API team. If you shop with ASOS…Testing12 min readTesting12 min read
AsosTechBlog·May 21, 2019A day in the life of… Lindsay S (Senior QA Engineer)This ‘Day in the life of’ series gives you an insight into what a typical day looks like for our women in Tech at ASOS (hint: there isn’t one) and how they started their careers. Hopefully, you take something inspirational away from it. This one’s about Lindsay S who’s a…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Lee Clements·Apr 16, 2019My Testing SafariA Talent Team QA specialist’s look into QA engineering at ASOS. — What’s it all about? As the Talent Team QA specialist, I am considered an honorary member of the vibrant ASOS QA community. I was challenged by our Lead QA group to enrich my knowledge in the subject by getting as close to the ground as possible — in particular to learn more about analytical…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Gareth Waterhouse·Mar 22, 2019Gaining confidence in automated checksThis follows on from the previous blog post here. As discussed in the previous blog post, we came to understand that the way we were working wasn’t the way we wanted to be, nor was it how we could deliver software safely and confidently to production. We identified that we…Testing5 min readTesting5 min read
Paul MacD.·Mar 15, 2019Witness the (Android) fitnessOver the past two years we’ve completely changed how we do things in the ASOS Android team. Before our transformation, our dev process had little structure, our automation was limited to unit tests and it took ages to publish a release because we were reliant on manual regression testing. Sound…Apps6 min readApps6 min read
Vasilis Kortsimelidis·Feb 20, 2019How to test your React · Redux applicationWhenever I start a new React project, I always find it helpful to look back at my previous projects to remind me how best to test actions, components and reducers. I’ll try to organise everything in one place — this blog post. I will share the key points of the…Redux9 min readRedux9 min read
Steven Withey·Jan 23, 2019How to write acceptance tests for a Facebook Messenger botHere at ASOS, we’ve been experimenting with using natural language understanding capabilities to build new customer experiences in voice and conversational platforms. The first product that we launched is Enki, the ASOS Fashionbot on Facebook Messenger. Check it out here! When building a bot for Facebook Messenger (without using a…Facebook Messenger6 min readFacebook Messenger6 min read