Maven – different between -DskipTests and -Dmaven.test.skip=true

sometime when we build maven, junit will also be invoked to test code.

usually, these unit test will fail because of development machine configures are different.

there are two commands which could skip test.

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$ mvn package -DskipTests
$ mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

“-DskipTests” is to build test source code but don’t run them.
“-Dmaven.test.skip=true” don’t do anything for test source code, do not compile and do not run for test code.