前段时间，一个maven plugin大牛email说，现在可以使用-Dskiptests来跳过unit test。

赶忙，看一下git history，看看大牛改了什么来enable上述功能。原来是新加了surfire plugin。

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>-Xms512M -Xmx512M</argLine>
<classesDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/generated-classes/emma/classes</classesDirectory>
<systemPropertyVariables>
<logback.configurationFile>
${logbackConfig}
</logback.configurationFile>
</systemPropertyVariables>
</configuration>
</plugin>

又看文档了解到-Dskiptests是surefire特有的环境参数，而 -Dmaven.test.skip是maven built-in的环境变量。

来源：http://blog.csdn.net/shanling2004/article/details/6710473

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方法1:

To skip running the tests for a particular project, set the skipTests property to true.

<project>
   [...]
  < build>
    < plugins>
      < plugin>
        < groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        < artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        < version>2.4.2</version>
        < configuration>
          < skipTests>true</skipTests>
        < /configuration>
      < /plugin>
    < /plugins>
  < /build>
   [...]
< /project>

方法2:

You can also skip the tests via command line by executing the following command:

mvn install -DskipTests

方法3:

If you absolutely must, you can also use the maven.test.skip property to skip compiling the tests. maven.test.skip is honored by Surefire and the Compiler Plugin.

mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

来源：http://blog.csdn.net/jiushuai/article/details/7478372