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

Every action in gradle is a task, and so is test. And to exclude a task from gradle run, you can use the option --exclude-task or it's shorthand -x followed by the task name which needs to be excluded. Example:

gradle build -x test

The -x option should be repeated for all the tasks that needs to be excluded.

If you have different tasks for different type of tests in your build.gradle file, then you need to skip all those tasks that executes test. Say you have a task test which executes unit-tests and a task testFunctional which executes functional-tests. In this case, you can exclude all tests like below:

gradle build -x test -x testFunctional