they don't want you to test it, they person making the changes just wants to be able to give them to other people who are registered members. He could easily, just put it on his website, but dosen't want people to be able to copy it, so he needs a place that is password protected so that only registered users can download it and use it if they wish. Most probably won't cos they are waiting until 2.0 but not everyone is going to upgrade (if i can't sort this access/cookie thing out i know i won't) and a nicer control panel taking 5 seconds to update would be nice.
as you would say c'mon think about it