In this tutorial we will show you how to avoid running the unit tests of a Maven based Java project. By default, Apache Maven executes all unit tests automatically, when building a project. However, if a single test fails, Maven aborts the building process and reports the encountered errors.
In this example, we use the following tools on a Windows 7 platform:
- Apache Maven 3.1.1
- JDK 1.7
- Maven Surefire Plugin 2.16
In any case you don’t want the building procedure to halt because of a unit test failure, Maven is capable of skipping all unit tests and continue with the project building procedure.
In order to skip the unit test execution, we must add the -Dmaven.test.skip=true argument to our command. For example:
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true
Alternatively, we can take advantage of the maven-surefire-plugin. The Surefire Plugin is used during the test phase of the build lifecycle to execute the unit tests of an application. In our pom.xml file, we add the following snippet:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.16</version>
<configuration>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
In the above snippet we observe that we define skipTests as true. If we rebuild the project, all unit tests will be completely ignored. For example, if we execute the command:
mvn clean install
we shall observe the following message in the command line:
This was an example on how to skip all unit tests of a Maven based Java project.
