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+Title: Skipping test execution but not test compilation
+Date: 2007-05-17
+lang: en
+
+In more complicated Maven builds you might package your tests along with your normal code to use in other modules (see plugin doc to the [maven-jar-plugin](http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/index.html) how to do it). For normal development you might not want to execute the unit tests every time you build. Compiling the source with
+
+    mvn compile
+
+won't build the tests which might fail the whole build as other modules depend on the compiled test classes. So you might be tempted to use
+
+    mvn compile test-compile
+
+which won't do the job either because the tests won't be compiled. At first glance using
+
+    mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true test
+
+seems to be what you want to do but alas, the tests won't be compiled in this case either. The solution to this problem is to use
+
+    mvn -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true test
+
+which actually enters the test phase (which in turn compiles the tests) but skips only the execution of the unit tests.