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Maven Essentials
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Maven Essentials

by Prabath Siriwardena
December 2015
Beginner
184 pages
3h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Avoiding using maven.test.skip

You may manage an extremely small project that does not evolve a lot without unit tests. But, any large-scale project cannot exist without unit tests. Unit tests provide the first level of guarantee that you do not break any existing functionality with a newly introduced code change. In an ideal scenario, you should not commit any code to a source repository without building the complete project with unit tests.

Maven uses the surefire plugin to run tests and as a malpractice developers are used to skip the execution of unit tests by setting the maven.test.skip property to true, as follows:

$ mvn clean install –Dmaven.test.skip=true

This can lead to serious repercussions in the later stage of the project, and you ...

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