jQuery Plugins For A Better User Interface
A well designed user interface is the prima-facie medium for user attraction. A good user interface can impress users and improve the reputation of a website. This collection of jQuery Plugins For A Better User Interface help you design attractive and intuitive user interface to communicate well with users.
1. Boxy – Facebook-like Dialog Overlay With Frills
Boxy is a flexible, Facebook-style dialog box for jQuery with support for dragging and size tweening. It differs from other overlays I have seen by providing an object interface to control dialogs after they have been created. And for simple usage scenarios, boxy also provides a jQuery plugin for automatically hooking up links and forms, as well as an ask() helper for presenting multiple choices to the user.
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Running user interface, unit and integration tests suites
By Chris Mcmahon
The problem of long running tests
User Interface, (UI) tests and certain kinds of integration tests like SOAP or REST API, are different than unit tests in many ways. For one thing, they take a long time to run. For another thing, they test not only the code, but also the whole environment in which the tests run. Also, they are not coupled to the code itself. We can be working in the test suite without regard for what is happening in the code base; and we can work in the code base without regard for the state of the test suite; and we can run such tests any time, as long as the underlying application has passed all its unit tests and is known to be in good shape.
The best approach I know to running a test suite that takes a long time to run is to do so inside an infinite loop: check out the latest tests; run them; get the test results and publish them; and then do the cycle over again, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
