maven.test.skip was just built into surefire as a convenience for
development, since naturally skipping tests should not be a habit or common
practice.
If you want to open a JIRA about it (I wouldn't be surprised if one exists
somewhere anyway) if I were you, I would instead expand the scope to be
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Hi there,
I noticed that maven.test.skip is just a convenience property specially
interpreted by plugins like surefire.
Besides I could NOT find a way to skip integration-tests when tests are
configured to run in that phase instead. This causes the bu