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Maven: excluding tests from assembly

I have several classes that I use as tests in my src / test / java folder of my project. When I start maven using the standard maven plugin compile. These elements are compiled into .class files and are included in the jar where the compiled code is packaged.

I created these tests for myself to work in Eclipse, before starting maven and building my release. These are just sanity tests and should not be included in the build. I would rather not put them in a separate project because it makes sense to me. How can I tell maven that I don't want it to compile / include files in this directory?

I believe the maven compiler generates the jar like this:

<plugin>
 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 <configuration>
  <source>1.6</source>
  <target>1.6</target>
 </configuration>
</plugin>
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As I understand from your comment on this answer , "tests" are not unit tests, but just regular classes that you want to exclude from the final artifact? Thus, the best option is to use the tag <exclude>

with the maven-jar-plugin like this:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4</version>
    <configuration>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>**/yoursortoftestpackage/YourSortOfTestClass*</exclude>
        </excludes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>


Hope it helps!

Greetings,

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Put your test files in a folder src/localtest/java

, I guess maven won't know it is there.



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The use option -Dmaven.test.skip

will skip both compilation and test execution. (use -DskipTests

just skips test execution, tests are still compiled)

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mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip

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Junit annotations @Ignore

will ignore the class when building in maven.

Edit:

You can customize the maven-surefire-plugin.

<project>
<build>
<project>
<build>
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.2</version>
    <configuration>
      <excludes>
        <exclude>**/TestCircle.java</exclude>
        <exclude>**/TestSquare.java</exclude>
      </excludes>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>
</plugins>
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