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Mastering Apache Maven 3

You're reading from   Mastering Apache Maven 3 Enhance developer productivity and address exact enterprise build requirements by extending Maven

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983865
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Apache Maven Quick Start FREE CHAPTER 2. Demystifying Project Object Model 3. Maven Configuration 4. Build Lifecycles 5. Maven Plugins 6. Maven Assemblies 7. Maven Archetypes 8. Maven Repository Management 9. Best Practices Index

Avoid using maven.test.skip

You might manage an extremely small project that does not evolve a lot without unit tests. However, 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 skip the execution of unit tests by setting the maven.test.skip property to true:

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

This can lead to serious repercussions in the later stage of the project, and you must ensure that all your developers do not skip testing while building.

Using the requireProperty rule of the Maven enforcer plugin, you can ban developers from using the maven.test.skip property. The following shows the enforcer plugin configuration that you need...

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