Maven - Skip building test classes

Question

Is there a simple way to not build the test classes?

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Answer 1

Just to be explicitly clear:

skipTests will compile anything in the , but will not execute them.

maven.test.skip will NOT compile any tests, but WILL execute any compiled tests that made their way into the .

So the behavior of the above 2 is opposite. Just wanted to point out that maven.test.skip doesn't skip compilation AND execution if test files are unpacked/copied/etc. into .

Also, depending on which version of Maven your using, there's also maven.test.skip.exec=true which additionally skips test execution similar to skipTests.