Maven - Skip building test classes
Solution 1:
According to the documentation on the Maven Surefire Plugin, -Dmaven.test.skip
should skip both compilation and execution of the tests. By contrast, -DskipTests
just skips the test execution: the tests are still compiled.
Solution 2:
Just to be explicitly clear:
skipTests
will compile anything in the <testSourceDirectory>
, but will not execute them.
maven.test.skip
will NOT compile any tests, but WILL execute any compiled tests that made their way into the <testOutputDirectory>
.
So the behavior of the above 2 is opposite. Just wanted to point out that maven.test.skip
doesn't skip compilation AND execution if test files are unpacked/copied/etc. into <testOutputDirectory>
.
Also, depending on which version of Maven your using, there's also maven.test.skip.exec=true
which additionally skips test execution similar to skipTests.
Solution 3:
Run a phase that doesn't include test-compile
, for example compile
.
mvn clean compile