Question

Is it possible to run a maven test build (mvn clean test) in a multi module maven project and to skip/ignore a particular module’s test? like -Dmaven.test.skip=true but for a particular module and not all the modules? I dont want to change the surefire <configuration> to include <skipTests>true</skipTests> for the module which I want to skip for tests. I wanted to know if this can be done from command line. I need this because in my project I’ve many modules and particular one or two takes really long to execute test, so when I want to test only couple of modules I’d like to skip these time taking modules to which I’ve not made any changes.

Answer 1

Is is really a problem for you to change the configuration of the surefire plugin ? Because you could change it one time only in your module …

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.12</version>
            <configuration>
                <skipTests>${skip.foo.module.tests}</skipTests>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

… and delegate the true/false value of the skipTests tag to a maven property, activated by a dedicated profile :

<properties>
    <skip.foo.module.tests>false</skip.foo.module.tests>
</properties>

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>SKIP_FOO_MODULE_TESTS</id>
        <properties>
            <skip.foo.module.tests>true</skip.foo.module.tests>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

So that you could deactivate the tests in Foo module with the command line :

mvn clean test -P SKIP_FOO_MODULE_TESTS