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

Using -x test skip test execution but this also exclude test code compilation.

gradle build -x test 

In our case, we have a CI/CD process where one goal is compilation and next goal is testing (Build -> Test).

So, for our first Build goal we wanted to ensure that the whole project compiles well. For this we have used:

./gradlew build testClasses -x test

On the next goal we simply execute tests.