Maven package/install without test (skip tests)

Solution 1:

Run maven with

mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip

Solution 2:

Just provide the command mentioned below, which will ignore executing the test cases (but will compile the test code):

mvn package -DskipTests

Solution 3:

you can add this plugin configuration to your pom if you do not want to set command line arg:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

Solution 4:

Note that -Dmaven.test.skip prevents Maven building the test-jar artifact.

If you'd like to skip tests but create artifacts as per a normal build use:

-Dmaven.test.skip.exec

Solution 5:

If you are trying this in Windows Powershell, you will get this error:

[ERROR] Unknown lifecycle phase ".test.skip=true". You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format...

The reason for this is, in Powershell the "-" has special meaning and it is causing problem with maven.

The solution is to prepend it with a backtick (`), like so..

mvn `-Dmaven.test.skip=true install

Reference: http://kuniganotas.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/invalid-task-test-skiptrue-you-must-specify-a-valid-lifecycle-phase/