In 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…

When 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…

Tests 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…

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…

A 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…

This 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…

Over 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…

Whenever 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…