Maven: skip test-compile in the life cycle?

Question

I have project that I set to build with the test-jar and normal jar by using this setting:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>test-jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

The problem with this is whenever I upgrade the project version in the pom, I need to do a build with the tests, otherwise maven won't be able to find the test-jar with the correct version during the test-compile phrase. A lot of time I would just want to skip the tests, but due to the test-jar missing, the test-compilephrase will fail.

I tried to use -Dmaven.test.skip=true, but that doesn't seem to skip the test-compile phase. Is there a way to skip this?

score 78 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '14 at 16:40

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$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true \
      -Dmaven.site.skip=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true

answered Nov 11 '14 at 16:40

gavenkoa

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Its often better to have a brief explanation than to have code only answers. – IdeaHat Nov 11 '14 at 20:22
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no need of this parameter -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true - it works for me with couple of parameters to skip site staging and tests – amar Dec 16 '16 at 07:29
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One thing I only recently realized: `-Dmaven.test.skip=true` and `-DskipTests=true` are NOT the same thing. – Sridhar Sarnobat Jan 14 '19 at 22:59
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To elaborate on what Sridhar said: `skipTests` only skips execution of tests, while `maven.test.skip` skips both compilation and execution. – FWDekker Feb 08 '19 at 13:45
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@FWDekker Great explanation! – Gaurav May 09 '19 at 18:00

score 47 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '11 at 04:29

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If you want to skip the compilation of test sources, you can try configuring the maven compiler plugin suitably. This is not recommended though.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>default-testCompile</id>
                    <phase>test-compile</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>testCompile</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <skip>true</skip>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

answered Apr 26 '11 at 04:29

Raghuram

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I'm actually looking for a command line param if that's possible. – fei Apr 26 '11 at 07:42
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@fei. As specified in http://maven.apache.org/general.html#skip-test, `maven.test.skip=true` skips test compilation and execution. If this is not happening, you can update your question with log. – Raghuram Apr 26 '11 at 08:38
I had set my ID to something other than `default-testCompile` and this wouldn't work correctly. Why is this specific ID required? – Ungeheuer Feb 17 '20 at 22:31
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@Ungeheuer you're trying to override the definition of an execution that's already defined for maven-compiler-plugin. The way I do that is `default-testCompile`, which unbinds it from any phase so it doesn't even show up as skipped. I use this in some projects to override various check-related plugins defined in parent-POMs for the default build profile. – MithrilTuxedo Apr 02 '20 at 20:29

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '22 at 07:48

Little Late, But to summarise in short and be precise -

Adding to what @Sridhar and @FWDekker said,

mvn clean install -DskipTests=true will just skip the Tests Execution

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip will skip both compilation and execution of Tests.

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 01 '19 at 07:18

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Just Add -Dmaven.test.skip . It will Not even compile test

answered Apr 01 '19 at 07:18

kartick shaw

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Yes with this Test will not run but test files would compile . but giving only this would not compile the test files – kartick shaw Apr 02 '19 at 17:19

Parisana Ng · Answer 5 · 2022-01-22T17:45:50.493

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Here is my working command from https://maven.apache.org/plugins-archives/maven-surefire-plugin-2.12.4/examples/skipping-test.html

You can skip running tests with the following command

mvn clean install -DskipTests

If you absolutely must, you can also use the maven.test.skip property to skip compiling the tests. maven.test.skip is honored by Surefire, Failsafe and the Compiler Plugin.

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -DskipTests

edited Jan 22 '22 at 17:45

answered Jun 16 '19 at 05:42

Parisana Ng

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This does not run tests, but still compiles them. – Jónás Balázs Nov 26 '20 at 12:45
The second incantation helped me. I knew my tests would fail, just wanted to know whether the build (pre-fixing the tests) would be happy. – Bill Naylor Apr 08 '22 at 19:09

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