What is the difference between “-Dmaven.test.skip.exec” vs “-Dmaven.test.skip=true” and “-DskipTests”?

Question

I am not sure what the difference between the maven directives -Dmaven.test.skip.exec and -Dmaven.test.skip=true -DskipTests are. Both

Answer 1

The system property -Dmaven.test.skip=true will do the following:

because maven.test.skip disables both running the tests and compiling the tests.

The system property -Dmaven.test.skip.exec is deprecated where you should use -DskipTests=true

Set this to "true" to skip running tests, but still compile them.