How can I get the maven-release-plugin to run without triggering the tests?
I have tried
-Dmaven.test.skip=true
and
-DskipTests
and
-DpreparationGoals=clean
...yet none work.
Yes, I know I shouldn't release if the tests don't pass, but I don't have control over making my coworkers write reliable tests.
-Darguments="-DskipTests"
is what you want, or explicitly configuring the forked executions in the pom.
-Darguments="..."
passes arguments to the forked maven process, but it is important to realise that there are two different switches being used here. The -DskipTests
forces maven to not run any tests, but the tests are still compiled (this is important if you have any dependencies on a test-jar type). The -Dmaven.test.skip=true
forces maven to not even compile the tests, which means that any test-jars will not be generated.
So, you must use -Darguments
, but to skip tests running use only skipTests
, to stop them compiling use maven.test.skip
.
If you just want to skip integration tests, this will do it:
-Darguments="-DskipITs"
To skip the entire unit test, it uses argument
-Dmaven.test.skip=true
so if you want to skip the Unit test this will solve
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true
or alternatively you can define skipTests in maven-surefire-plugin in
pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.4</version>
<configuration>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
you have too differents choices to avoid and skip tests with the release plugin
- The first is to pass as argument on cli to the relase goal or phases by providings a -Darguments:
exemple: mvn -X -Darguments="-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true" -P release-mode release:prepare
-The second is to perform thoses arguments on your pom.xml in the build like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm-provider-gitexe</artifactId>
<version>1.9.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
<preparationGoals>clean validate</preparationGoals>
<arguments>-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true</arguments>
<useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
<releaseProfiles>release-mode</releaseProfiles>
<tagNameFormat>TEST-@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Note that the second method override the first.
I recommanded you to prepare release first on a single action and then your can edit the release.properties file on the working directorie and look the exec.additionalArguments
propertie if you arguments are there. It will look like: exec.additionalArguments=-Dmaven.javadoc.skip\=true -Dmaven.test.skipTests\=true -Dmaven.test.skip\=true -P release-mode
.
After you can perform the release.
No maven plug-in literally triggers test compilation or execution. It is the maven lifecycle phases that trigger execution(s) of one or more plug-ins, when these have bounded goals to specific phase.
So, just executing a single plug-in goal would suffice without executing tests:
mvn release:perform
or combine with project build and packaging:
mvn clean package release:perform