In netbeans 7 how do I skip testing and add maven additional parameters when building a maven project?

Go to your project properties. Right click on the project name in Project Explorer and click Properties. Select Actions.

Select the configuration that you are interested in. Select the action that you are interested in. Under set properties you can add the skip test and so on.

You can also set up global commands by going to:

Tools->Options->Miscellaneous->Maven->Edit Global Custom Goal Definitions.

These will be available to all maven projects.

In Netbeans 8.2 in addition to

Tools->Options->Java->Maven->Execution->Skip Tests (checkbox)

in the same dialog you may need to add -Dmaven.test.skip to the

Global Execution Options (textfield)