Arbortext Publishing Engine offers an interactive testing utility called Arbortext Publishing Engine Test Utility to validate and test your Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and ACL applications as well as document conversion (f=convert) parameters. You can test your custom applications without having an Arbortext Publishing Engine production environment in place.

You can launch the Arbortext Publishing Engine Test Utility as a standalone program or from the Arbortext Publishing Engine InteractiveTools menu. You choose the test type and set all the parameters and their values for the custom application. The utility constructs the query string from your specifications and validates it. You can also run the test and report the results as though it had been handled by Arbortext Publishing Engine. If errors occur, they're included in the report. The Arbortext Publishing Engine Test Utility is documented in the manual, which you can find in the /docs on the Arbortext Publishing Engine distribution archive or CD-ROM, as well as in the PE_HOME/e3/docs directory after you install Arbortext Publishing Engine. The Arbortext Publishing Engine Test Utility standalone executable is located in: