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mvn test: What Actually Runs

Phases, plugins, and skip flags. What a single mvn command really executes, and the difference between skipping runs and skipping compiles.

Difficulty
Easy
Format
Quiz
Points
100
Estimate
8 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

Maven is not a task runner, it is a lifecycle: an ordered ladder of phases where invoking one phase runs everything before it. Testers live in this ladder daily (mvn test, mvn verify, -DskipTests), and misreading it is how integration tests silently stop running.

This quiz nails the default lifecycle around testing: which phases exist, what mvn test includes, and what the two skip flags actually skip.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

Which of these orderings of default-lifecycle phases is correct?

  1. Atest, compile, package, verify, validate, deploy, install
  2. Bcompile, validate, package, test, install, verify, deploy
  3. Cvalidate, test, compile, verify, package, deploy, install
  4. Dvalidate, compile, test, package, verify, install, deploy
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// SKILL TAGS

javamavenlifecycle