Connecting the chip like that is ok if you just want to see both gate drivers operating as low-side drivers. But that won't be capable of driving an actual half bridge, which I'm assuming is what you aim to do (otherwise there's be no point in selecting a part like this).
To properly test the high side driver, you need to connect actual transistors. To start, you should power the half bridge from a power supply with a low current limit (maybe 100mA), and no other circuits loading the bridge output, such that if you make a mistake you're much less likely to damage you components due to cross conduction.