/* Add the below propety to .m2/conf/settings.xml in the active profile */
<maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>

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/* Add the following property property to the maven-surefire-plugin plugin in the pom.xml*/
<skip>true</skip>

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html

Property skip will skip both compilation and execution of tests.
Property skipTests   will compile tests but will skip executing them

Disable running tests during build

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