diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 62e34bfd..fa98c837 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- [Perl] Fixed test failures when running tests out-of-tree by
+resticting testdata based tests to run in development only
+(by [ehuelsmann](https://github.com/ehuelsmann))
 
 ## [5.0.5] - 2023-08-11
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/perl/Makefile b/perl/Makefile
index 2231ec3e..d04bd773 100644
--- a/perl/Makefile
+++ b/perl/Makefile
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 include default.mk
 
 test: .cpanfile_dependencies
-	AUTHOR_TESTS=1 prove -l
+	AUTHOR_TESTING=1 prove -l
 .PHONY: test
 
 authortest: .cpanfile_dev_dependencies
-	AUTHOR_TESTS=1 prove -l
+	AUTHOR_TESTING=1 prove -l
 .PHONY: authortest
 
 clean:
diff --git a/perl/t/03-shared-tests.t b/perl/t/03-shared-tests.t
index 6032bdeb..068402e6 100644
--- a/perl/t/03-shared-tests.t
+++ b/perl/t/03-shared-tests.t
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ use YAML qw(LoadFile);
 
 use Cucumber::TagExpressions;
 
+plan skip_all => 'AUTHOR_TESTING not enabled'
+   if not $ENV{AUTHOR_TESTING};
 
 my $cases = LoadFile('../testdata/evaluations.yml');