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

Maven profile that executes only the integration tests (as suggested here) is not sufficient. You also need to make sure that the configuration of maven-compiler-plugin has useIncrementalCompilation = false. Running the profile this way, will not automatically re-compile, e.g.:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-compiler-plugin
    3.3
    
        1.8
        1.8
        false