How to stop Maven's verify phase rebuilding the artifact?

Question

Imagine a Java project built using Maven for which I have:

• some fast-running unit tests that:
  • developers should run before committing
  • my CI s

Answer 1

You can define a Maven profile that will be used to execute only the integration tests. I do this a lot.

Something like this:

    
        integration
        
            false
        
        
            
                
                    maven-surefire-plugin2.17
                    
                        true
                    
                
                
                    maven-war-plugin2.4
                    
                        /tmp
                    
                
            
        
    

You would invoke this with:

mvn verify -Pintegration

Unfortunately the WAR plugin can't be skipped, but you can send its output to somewhere out of the way (I've used /tmp). If you really want to save milliseconds, you could also make it ignore the web resources (except web.xml, it won't work without that).

You can also use the profile to skip any other plugins that you might be running, eg the assembly plugin, Cobertura, PMD, etc.