Adherence to skipTests

[jacobilsoe]

It would be nice if maven-karma-plugin skipped running tests if the skipTests property was present. I know of the skipKarma property, but it would be useful if the plugin adhered to skipTests as well.

[kelveden]

Yes, I considered this when creating the skipKarma parameter.

The reason for a separate parameter is to ensure that tests run with the maven-surefire-plugin (i.e. typically Java unit tests) can be skipped in isolation to the karma tests. If support for skipTests were added to maven-karma-plugin then there would be no way to skip ONLY the surefire tests thus allowing the karma tests to run in isolation. Having said that, you could just achieve the same effect by running karma test. So perhaps the use case is a bit too obscure to be of concern.

I'll have a think...

[jacobilsoe]

Ok, I see. You could consider doing it the same way as the maven-failsafe-plugin (for running integration tests): http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/skipping-test.html

[kelveden]

Yeah, that's the approach I was considering. Have had a think about it and given that the scenario of wanting to skip unit tests but NOT karma is a bit obscure and there will be consistency with the failsafe plugin I'll add it in. Or you can submit a patch of course!

[jacobilsoe]

Great. Thanks.

[synergiator]

Hi - since 2013 that Maven Failsaife Plugin url has moved to http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/skipping-tests.html

@kelveden - how to use properly "skipKarma" from Maven command line?

Not working e.g. mvn clean install -DskipKarma=true mvn clean install -Dmaven.skipKarma=true

[shravank28]

Try this: mvn clean install -Dskip.karma=true