To skip running the tests for a particular project, set the skip property to true.
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>
You can also skip the tests via command line by executing the following command:
mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true