The Maven Cookbook
7.7. Skipping Unit Tests
To skip unit tests in a Maven build, pass a value of true to the parameter maven.test.skip to Maven on the command line.
$ mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building testng-groups
[INFO] task-segment: [install]
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[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered
resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered
resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] Not compiling test sources
[INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
[INFO] Tests are skipped.
[INFO] [jar:jar {execution: default-jar}]
[INFO] Building jar: /Users/Tim/Library/Code/sonatype/maven-cookbook/
mcookbook-examples/unit/testng-groups/target/testng-groups-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] [install:install {execution: default-install}]
[INFO] Installing /Users/Tim/Library/Code/sonatype/maven-cookbook/
mcookbook-examples/unit/testng-groups/target/testng-groups-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
to /Users/Tim/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/mcookbook/testng-groups/
1.0-SNAPSHOT/testng-groups-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
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[INFO] Total time: 4 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Nov 26 12:32:14 CST 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 15M/80M
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