How to skip tests in certain jenkins builds?

Question

My jenkinsfile looks like this:

 stage('Build Scala Code and Generate Dockerfile') {
   container('sbt') {
     sh "sbt -batch myapp/docker:stage"
   }
 }

For certain deployments [debugging] I would like to skip tests so that the build happens faster. Is there a way to do this in sbt? I am using the sbt docker plugin.

Answer 1

If you are adding a boolean parameter DEBUG to tell Jenkins, that you are doing a debug deployment, you could change your stage like this:

stage('Build Scala Code and Generate Dockerfile') {
  container('sbt') {
    sh "sbt ${params.DEBUG ? 'set test in Test := {}' : ''} -batch myapp/docker:stage"
  }
}

Edit: since don't want a parameter, this might be better for you:

stage('Build Scala Code and Generate Dockerfile') {
  container('sbt') {
    sh "sbt 'set test in Test := {}' -batch myapp/docker:stage"
  }
}