Maven skip tests

Question

I am using Maven 2.2.1 and to build my project I used this command

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

However, the build failed sayin

Answer 1

The parameter -DskipTests may not work depending on your surefire-plugin version.

You can use "-Dmaven.test.skip.exec" instead of "-DskipTests"

Source: Surefire Parameter Details

Answer 2

I had some inter-dependency with the tests in order to build the package.

The following command manage to override the need for the test artifact in order to complete the goal:

mvn -DskipTests=true  package