------ Skipping Unit Tests ------ Benjamin Bentmann ------ March 2008 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Skipping Unit Tests Although not recommended as a general practice, you sometimes may want to skip the unit tests when packaging the artifact. Starting with Ant Plugin 2.1, the generated Ant build files allow this via the system property <<>>: +-----+ ant package -Dmaven.test.skip=true +-----+ The above command will both skip the compilation of the unit tests and their execution.