How to exclude test dependencies from a shaded maven jar?

Question

I'm using the maven-shade-plugin and I'd like to exclude not only my test code, but my test dependencies in the shaded jar. I realize I can specifically exclude certain artifacts (like junit), but that's a good bit of work and prone to some error most likely.

I'm setting minimizeJar to true, but I still see my Junit and Mockito dependencies showing up. Is there just no way to exclude all test scoped dependencies via configuration?

Answer 1

Make sure your test dependencies in the test scope:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.11</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
...

To check if your dependency setup use

mvn dependency:tree