Maven release plugin skipping tests on perform but not prepare

Question

When using the maven release plugin, both mvn release:prepare and mvn release:perform will run the tests.

Is there any way I can configure things so they only run during mvn release:prepare?

I know you can pass:

-Darguments="-DskipTests"

But this will skip the tests during both goals, which I don't want. And I also don't want them to run during just mvn release:perform and not prepare, as a failure during perform will have already tagged the repository.

Answer 1

You should be able to do that by adding the <releaseProfiles> element to the release-plugin configuration. This will only be used for release:perform Mojo.

Something like this should do the trick:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <releaseProfiles>skipTestsForReleasePerform</releaseProfiles>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
(...)
<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>skipTestsForReleasePerform</id>
        <properties>
            <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>