title: Do I need to publish application to test in app purchases?
body: <p>I was working on in app billing last time about 1 yesr ago. In that time to test in app billing I was need to setup tester account, upload application in draft mode and publish purchases.
  Since then Google added "sandbox" mode (which allows to test purchases without money transactions) and I want to use it.  I've read documentation but for me it's parts contradict each other.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_testing.html#testing-purchases" rel="nofollow">Here</a> it says that I only need to upload the app (nothing about publishing), add purchases and test accounts. Which is similar to the old mode. But it also says that alpha-testers WILL pay money for purchases.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/billing_testing.html#draft_apps" rel="nofollow">Here</a> it says that "draft" mode is unsupported so I need to publish my app to Alpha testing. Nothing about setting up alpha-testers list. </p>
  
  <p>So my question is if I need to publish my app to alpha-testing mode to test purchases without money transactions?</p>
  
  <p>P.S. Can I still use IABHelper from demo application? Examples in the documentation doesn't use it anymore.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> Docs says that purchases may be published before the app. But developer console says that purchases will be activated only after application is published.</p>