Maven Cobertura and Package without running Unit Tests Twice

Question

I am running maven like this:

mvn clean cobertura:cobertura package

I am noticing that my unit tests get run twice (thus doubling my build time). Is there a way to run cobertura AND generate the package in the same command without running tests twice?

Answer 1

An easy way would be to run two separate commands. In Bash it's then easy to chain them together into one line:

mvn clean cobertura:cobertura && mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

The first bit:

mvn clean cobertura:cobertura

Does clean, runs the tests and generates the coverage report.

The second bit:

mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Does the packaging, but tells it not to run the tests.

The && is there so that if the first command fails, then it won't try to run the second.