Maven skip tests

[Naftoli Gugenheim]

How do you tell maven to install even if tests fail?

[Indrajit Raychaudhuri]

Telling maven to never fail:
mvn -fn (NEVER fail the build, regardless of project result)

Telling maven to skip test: (quite different from never failing)
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true

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[Naftoli Gugenheim]

Thanks. Not sure why only the latter did an install.

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[Mark McBride]

My guess is that while -fn tells maven never to fail, it doesn't tell
it at what point in the lifecycle to finish. It's likely that the
test goal failed, maven stopped (before executing the install goal)
and reported a successful build. In the second case you're removing
the test goal from the maven lifecycle, so maven gets to the install
goal.