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I have an SBT 0.7.5 project and its some test cases fail. Until all test cases are fixed, I want to skip tests to generate a JAR. Is there any command line argument that tells SBT to skip all tests, like Maven's -Dmaven.test.skip=true flag?

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I had the same problem, I'm using the assembly plugin. In this case, the solution was to modify the build file and add

test in assembly := {}
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    This should be the marked as the proper answer, cos it tells you how test can be made to do nothing in a certain scope.
    – Richard Gomes
    Commented Nov 3, 2015 at 11:37
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    This changes the build file though, which isn't how I would want to skip tests - the maven command line flag is a more useful version, but it appears there is no (sbt-) run-time option to skip tests.
    – Rick Moritz
    Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 7:00
  • Indeed, this can also be done at-runtime-only using the set keyword of sbt, like sbt 'set test in assembly := {}' clean assembly. See kshakir's answer from How run sbt assembly command without tests from command line?
    – Murmel
    Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 17:24
  • Hi, when I add this to build.sbt I get the error: error: not found: value assembly running sbt assembly words just fine.
    – Dalton Sweeney
    Commented Apr 7, 2020 at 19:44
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Instead of using compile, you could use package. The compile tasks also runs the tests, package doesn't.

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    what does this answer mean? Example?
    – user239558
    Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 11:54
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    Despite it works in several circumstances, this answer does not really answer the question. A proper answer should say how you can disable tests in a certain scope, instead of directing you to employ another task, instead of test.
    – Richard Gomes
    Commented Nov 3, 2015 at 11:36

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