What does the CATALYST_DEBUG=1 produce? Is the _local.pl loaded at all?

I usually have my MyApp::Test module which exports some handy functions for test and in the beginning I put: BEGIN { $ENV{CATALYST_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX} = 'testing' } which sets the local suffix and Catalyst will load myapp_testing.{conf,yaml,pl} (or whatever you use). It works nice for tests where I can set some test values, test dsn and etc.