Maven: skip test-compile in the life cycle?

Question

I have project that I set to build with the test-jar and normal jar by using this setting:

        <plugin>             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>             <executions>                 <execution>                     <goals>                         <goal>test-jar</goal>                     </goals>                 </execution>             </executions>         </plugin> 

The problem with this is whenever I upgrade the project version in the pom, I need to do a build with the tests, otherwise maven won't be able to find the test-jar with the correct version during the test-compile phrase. A lot of time I would just want to skip the tests, but due to the test-jar missing, the test-compilephrase will fail.

I tried to use -Dmaven.test.skip=true, but that doesn't seem to skip the test-compile phase. Is there a way to skip this?

Answer 1

$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true \       -Dmaven.site.skip=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true 

Answer 2

If you want to skip the compilation of test sources, you can try configuring the maven compiler plugin suitably. This is not recommended though.

        <plugin>             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>             <version>2.3.2</version>             <executions>                 <execution>                     <id>default-testCompile</id>                     <phase>test-compile</phase>                     <goals>                         <goal>testCompile</goal>                     </goals>                     <configuration>                         <skip>true</skip>                     </configuration>                 </execution>             </executions>         </plugin>