How to make checkstyle checking dependent on skipTests?

Question

I'm trying to skip checkstyle check while I'm running mvn clean install -DskipTests , but the checkstyle check should run during mvn test. I was able to achive this with -Dcheckstyle.skip argument but I don't want that. If the tests are skipped skip the checkstyle as well. How to achieve this?

Answer 1

In Maven, you can skip checking by adding arguments to the command line. For skipping checking styles (e.g., checking code format, code quality, unit test coverage, etc.), you can use the following command:

mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip = true

If you want to skip checking code quality, you can use the following command:

mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip = true -Dcheckstyle.skip = true

Here, checkstyle.skip is a property that the Maven Check Styles plugin checks to see if the code meets the defined coding standards. By setting this property to true, you can tell Maven to skip the Check Styles phase during the build process.