How to skip tests for specific module in a Maven build

In a Maven build of a multi module project, sometimes we may want to skip tests for only a specific module. For illustration, let's consider a multi module project with 10 modules and we want to skip tests only for 1 or 2 modules.

In such a scenario, enter the following in that module's pom whose tests we want to skip. We simply set the skipTests tag to true in the maven surefire plugin configuration.

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

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