Gradle build without tests

Question

I want to execute gradle build without executing the unit tests. I tried:

$ gradle -Dskip.tests build

That doesn\'t seem to

Answer 1

the different way to disable test tasks in the project is:

tasks.withType(Test) {enabled = false}

this behavior needed sometimes if you want to disable tests in one of a project(or the group of projects).

This way working for the all kind of test task, not just a java 'tests'. Also, this way is safe. Here's what I mean let's say: you have a set of projects in different languages: if we try to add this kind of record in main build.gradle:

 subprojects{
 .......
 tests.enabled=false
 .......
}

we will fail in a project when if we have no task called tests