Our Playwright testing standards at Houseful
The Playwright testing standards we adhere to at Houseful and the benefits that come along with them
Latest engineering posts
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Make Engineers Love Playwright With These Software Design Patterns
Why We Chose To Migrate From Selenium To Playwright, And How We Applied Design Patterns To Make Engineers Love It
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Houseful's Holistic Testing Model
An insight into our Quality strategy and approach to testing.
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Scaling Playwright tests with tag annotations
An overview as to how we scale our browser based Playwright tests using tag annotations
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Zero Bug Policy
An introduction to Zero Bug Policy and how we have adopted this Bug Policy in Zoopla.
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Accessibility at Zoopla
An overview of Accessibility Testing at Zoopla and current initiatives to improve it.
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Zoopla's journey of improving Property Data by using UPRNs
This decision immediately opened up possibilities for us to share data internally more effectively, connect to external data sources, and to begin to expand our property set towards our goal of having accurate data for every home in the UK.
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Contract Testing 101
An introduction to Contract Testing, how it's different from unit and traditional integration testing, and how we have adopted Contract Testing in Zoopla.
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Engineering Culture at Zoopla - video
We made a short video with some of our Zoopla engineers! Find out about our culture, ways of working, and what people enjoy about working at Zoopla.
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DORA metrics at Zoopla
The DORA metrics provide us with all the necessary insights to track our success.This is why at Zoopla today, we employ the well researched, engineering-focused DORA metrics, so that our results can be reasonably benchmarked.
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Emulating QA and Production Environments with Next.js and Caddy
How we improved our local development experience overnight with the use of Caddy.
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Measuring Web Page Performance at Zoopla
The performance of our website is vital to our success as a business, both to delight our consumers with a fast and reliable service and to ensure we maintain search rankings for our organic traffic. So how exactly do we measure and quantify performance, and why is it so important that we do so?
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Zoopla's Trusted Data Layer
A high-level overview of the approach we took to architecting and building Zoopla’s Trusted Data Layer, leveraging core AWS tools and services.
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Project Bedrock, A New Foundation For The Future
In November 2019, Zoopla kicked off a huge programme of work that involved most of our Product and Technology department. That programme led to fundamental changes to how Zoopla.co.uk works and how the teams that build it operate.