How can I get maven-release-plugin to skip my tests?

Solution 1:

-Darguments="-DskipTests" is what you want, or explicitly configuring the forked executions in the pom.

Solution 2:

-Darguments="..." passes arguments to the forked maven process, but it is important to realise that there are two different switches being used here. The -DskipTests forces maven to not run any tests, but the tests are still compiled (this is important if you have any dependencies on a test-jar type). The -Dmaven.test.skip=true forces maven to not even compile the tests, which means that any test-jars will not be generated.

So, you must use -Darguments, but to skip tests running use only skipTests, to stop them compiling use maven.test.skip.

Solution 3:

If you just want to skip integration tests, this will do it:

-Darguments="-DskipITs"

Solution 4:

you have too differents choices to avoid and skip tests with the release plugin

The first is to pass as argument on cli to the release goal or phases by providing a -Darguments:

exemple: mvn -X -Darguments="-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true" -P release-mode release:prepare

-The second is to perform thoses arguments on your pom.xml in the build like this:

<plugin>    
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
                        <version>1.9.4</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
                <configuration>
                    <skip>true</skip>
                    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                    <preparationGoals>clean validate</preparationGoals>
                    <arguments>-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true</arguments>
                    <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
                    <releaseProfiles>release-mode</releaseProfiles>
                    <tagNameFormat>TEST-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Note that the second method override the first.

I recommanded you to prepare release first on a single action and then you can edit the release.properties file on the working directorie and look the exec.additionalArguments properties if your arguments are there. It will look like: exec.additionalArguments=-Dmaven.javadoc.skip\=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests\=true -Dmaven.test.skip\=true -P release-mode.

After you can perform the release.

Solution 5:

Use the following argument to skip test

-Darguments="-DskipTests"

alternatively skipping by default

 [...]
  <properties>
    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
  </properties>
  [...]