Maven - Skip building test classes

Question

Is there a simple way to not build the test classes?

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Answer 1

I found a work-around in another question, which actually overrides a plugin execution by adding the following snippet in your pom.xml by default:

  
    
      org.apache.maven.plugins
      maven-compiler-plugin
      
        
          default-testCompile
          none
        
      
   
  

This seems to work but definitely does not disable phase but disables the default actions that a plugin defines at a specific phase.