QuickBooks Online Edition (QBOE) Testing Environment

I am developing an application that will interface with my clients QuickBooks Online Edition (QBOE) database and I need to do unit testing of this application while I am developing.  The end goal of the application is to insert the appropriate journal entry items into their production QuickBooks Online Edition database, so I need to do unit testing of those inserts into a test/development QBOE environment.  

There is an Intuit Development Network (IDN) testing environment which I figured was the way to go.  But after several days of searching on how to get into the test environment, I eventually found out that you need to get IDN certified which costs money and also takes a good amount time.

In the end what I did was sign up for my own QuickBooks Online Edition account and created my own fake company.  There is a 30-day free trial and after that it is $9.95/month.  There is a good chance I will be finished with my testing before the 30 day free trial ends but even if I am not, paying $9.95/month for a development tool is perfectly acceptable in my mind too.

See this IDN thread (Is there a QuickBooks Online Edition test environment?) for a little more details on the IDN certifications if you are interested.  I started this StackOverflow question too but I ended up answering my own question there (not too many StackOverflow QuickBooks users yet.)