How to Skip build test when running Azure DevOps Pipeline(Spring Boot Maven Project)

Question

I have a problem when running Azure DevOps Pipeline.

I'm now using Spring Boot Maven Project. I want to run Build Pipeline without building test(src/test) files,because the project will build failure with test files, and it can be built successfully without test files.

Is there any settings or configs? Many thanks.

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I strongly recommend to fix your tests to be building correctly. This should be the first step before any kind of build/deployment should be done... — khmarbaise, Dec 17 '20 at 09:00
Hi @jasonroy7dct, how are things going? Have you tried the suggestions in my answer? Is it helpful to you? Please try it. Any progress, feel free to tell me. — Bright Ran-MSFT, Dec 22 '20 at 09:05

Sid · Answer 1 · 2021-05-19T06:38:56.827

The solution provided by @Bright Ran-MSFT is good but doesn't focus on the Azure Pipeline way of skipping the tests. It's because one may NOT want to skip the tests forever, instead just for a few temporary instances. Hence, hardcoding test skips in pom.xml may not be a good idea.

Azure Pipeline's Maven task provides a different way of passing the parameters.
-Dmaven.test.skip=true or -DskipTests=true can be passed through options argument of Maven task. Something like this -

steps:
- task: Maven@3
  inputs:
    mavenPomFile: './pom.xml'
    mavenOptions: '-Xmx3072m'
    javaHomeOption: 'JDKVersion'
    jdkVersionOption: '1.8'
    jdkArchitectureOption: 'x64'
    publishJUnitResults: false
    testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'
    goals: 'package'
    options: 'package -Dmaven.test.skip'

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '21 at 12:46

We have the options argument in Maven@3 tasks that we will help to add extra command-line options for maven.

Azure DevOps Maven Tasks - Link

steps:
  - task: Maven@3
    inputs:
      mavenPomFile: './pom.xml'
      mavenOptions: '-Xmx3072m'
      javaHomeOption: 'JDKVersion'
      jdkVersionOption: '1.8'
      jdkArchitectureOption: 'x64'
      publishJUnitResults: false
      testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'
      goals: 'package'
      options: '-DskipTests=true'

Bright Ran-MSFT · Answer 3 · 2020-12-22T09:02:46.483

1

You can try the following ways:

Set maven.test.skip=true

In Terminal

mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Or in pom.xml

<project>
    <properties>
        <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
    </properties>
</project>

Use this -DskipTests in surefire plugin.

In Terminal

mvn package -DskipTests

Or in pom.xml

<project>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
        <configuration>
          <skipTests>true</skipTests>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

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edited Dec 22 '20 at 09:02

answered Dec 17 '20 at 08:04

Bright Ran-MSFT

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Please do not reference such extreme old versions of maven-surefire-plugin...use the most recent ones... https://maven.apache.org/plugins/ – khmarbaise Dec 17 '20 at 09:01
@khmarbaise, Thanks for your tip. I have updated the version in my answer. – Bright Ran-MSFT Dec 22 '20 at 09:02
This worked for me: true – sonal Apr 25 '21 at 19:55

How to Skip build test when running Azure DevOps Pipeline(Spring Boot Maven Project)

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