Maven Skipping Tests

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In this quick article, we will look into different ways to skip tests in maven applications.

 Sometimes we need to disable JUnit test cases written in maven projects. When we build a maven package by default maven will execute the JUnit test cases.

Skipping Tests

If you are using maven-surefire-plugin in your pom.xml then it's easy to skip running the tests for a particular project, set the skipTests property to true.
<project>
  [...]
  
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.12.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
  [...]

</project>

From Command Line

You can also skip the tests via the command line by executing the following command:
mvn 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 install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Skipping by default

If you want to skip tests by default but want the ability to re-enable tests from the command line, you need to go via a properties section in the pom:
<project>
  [...]
  
    <properties>
        <skipTests>true</skipTests>
    </properties>
  [...]
  
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.12.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>${skipTests}</skipTests>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
  [...]

</project>
This will allow you to run with tests disabled by default and to run them with this command:
mvn install -DskipTests=false
The same can be done with the "skip" parameter and other booleans on the plugin.
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