> On 9 Nov 2019, at 12:23, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Snip > > I think that I tried > $ mvn -Dcheckstyle.failOnViolation=false test > > And still it wouldn't run the test (because I had introduced the > "System.out" forbidden construct).
Checkstyle is configured to run in the validate phase (right at the start) [1]. The default is normally verify. This was copied from commons RNG and predates my joining the project. So this is why you cannot run ‘mvn test’ as it runs checkstyle:check and fails you before doing the test. Now fail on violation is ‘true’ perhaps we should move the check back to validate. So you cannot do a 'mvn install' with any checkstyle errors. You can also run mvn checkstyle:check to run the goal manually. [1] http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.6.2/maven-core/lifecycles.html <http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.6.2/maven-core/lifecycles.html>
