1. A method for testing a context-sensitive help system of a computer software application without executing the computer software application, the method comprising: providing a computer software application, wherein the computer software application comprises plural dialog boxes, and wherein a dialog box comprises one or more graphical control objects; associating context-sensitive help information with the graphical control objects of the computer software application, wherein the context-sensitive help information comprises one or more help text descriptions, and wherein the textual context-sensitive help information further comprises help identifiers that index the help text descriptions; creating a map of the graphical control objects to the help identifiers; creating a help file comprising the context-sensitive help information and the map; without executing the computer software application, displaying a dialog box of the computer software application, resulting in the display of one or more graphical control objects of the dialog box; receiving a context-sensitive help information request for a graphical control object of the displayed dialog box; and in response, passing a reference to the map to an operating system help display system, resulting in the display of the requested context-sensitive help information based upon the help file.