Testing in-app billing

Question

I've read quite a lot about in-app billing and testing but I still didn't find the answer to few questions:

How can I test real purchases on draft (unpublished) version of the app? The products/items need to be published => app need to be published. Is there a way to publish items without publishing the app?

The whole testing process is quite unfriendly to developers, shame on Google :(

I successfully tested my application using test static responses, now I need to test it on real items without publishing the application. The only way I can think of now is to publish the app for e.g. Kenya, publish the items, test and then un-publish the app.

Any ideas will be very appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

So I think I figured it out. All I needed to do was publish the app and then unpublish. After this I was be able to publish items and test real end-to-end purchases on these items. Very intuitive and developer-friendly :)