Professional Authoring offers two ways of manually testing the surveys. The first of these, Quick Test, allows you to open the survey within Professional Authoring at the question you select.
Figure 1 - Quick Test option
"Quick Test" compiles the survey code and runs it locally on your PC without writing data back to a database. Data is just kept in the current session. To recompile after making changes, choose the "with rebuild" option. "New respondent" removes the data kept in the session so that you will restart on a blank survey. Quick test is perfect to use when debugging scripts because the fact that it is does not generate a database makes it fast. This means you can make small changes to a script and test them immediately with Quick Test (with rebuild).
If you need the test responses to be stored in a database, you can launch the survey in test mode and run the test interview. Refer to the separate Professional Authoring documentation for further details.