Any way to reduce mvn clean verify build time?

[Brijeshthummar02]

Hi all,
I was wondering if there are any best practices or possible improvements we can adopt to reduce the total execution time of mvn clean verify on the Checkstyle repo. It currently takes quite a while, especially during full test runs.

Are there any flags, configurations, or ideas around incremental builds, test skipping, or parallelization that could help speed things up during active development or testing?

It gets a bit frustrating to wait that long just to see if a change works—and during that time, it's hard to work on anything else.

Thanks in advance!

[rnveach]

Removing the clean will help improve time since various items have their own caches.
Otherwise learn to which items to partially run and rely on CI for full build verification.

[romani]

https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/wiki/How-to-run-certain-phases-and-validations consider to run only required validations individually.

Removal of clean might cause build failure with class not found exception, as jacoco mutate classes and it is causing problems for second run.

[rnveach]

Just disable jacoco.

[Brijeshthummar02]

Both of you sounds valid.

[Praveen7294]

@Brijeshthummar02 Your mvn clean verify build seems to be taking quite a while.

For me, it usually takes 12–15 minutes.

I always run the command using Command Prompt (cmd), and the build time stays consistent. You might want to give it a try — it could potentially be faster on your end too.

[Brijeshthummar02]

@Brijeshthummar02 Your mvn clean verify build seems to be taking quite a while.

For me, it usually takes 12–15 minutes.

I always run the command using Command Prompt (cmd), and the build time stays consistent. You might want to give it a try — it could potentially be faster on your end too.

@Praveen7294 Below are some of SS of Build status in cmd only. Don't know why but for me it roughly takes 25-30 mins - even though my system specs are so high.

[romani]

30 minutes is wild, 8 minutes max on my 10 years old laptop.

It would be awesome if you share how long it takes for each plugin to run

[Brijeshthummar02]

also as mentioned by @Praveen7294 to run it on cmd instead IDEA currently running that once finish let me share result if it really works or not.

Sure i will break down separately about how long it takes for each plugin to run.

[Brijeshthummar02]

30 minutes is wild, 8 minutes max on my 10 years old laptop.

It would be awesome if you share how long it takes for each plugin to run

Exactly that to on HP pavilion 15 5500U 12/512 specs. can't believe.

[Praveen7294]

@Brijeshthummar02 Try to run on system cmd not in intellij idea cmd.

[Brijeshthummar02]

@Brijeshthummar02 Try to run on system cmd not in intellij idea cmd.

I'll try and share response.

[Brijeshthummar02]

@Praveen7294 check it out.
Running mvn clean verify without making any changes to codebase and took 23 mins to execute. Did not work for me as said by you.

[Praveen7294]

@Brijeshthummar02 try to run without using powershell
just go to the project root directory open cmd and then run mvn clean verify

in intellij idea terminal also uses powershell and here you also using powershell to run so please try to run without powershell normal cmd

[Brijeshthummar02]

@Brijeshthummar02 try to run without using powershell just go to the project root directory open cmd and then run mvn clean verify

in intellij idea terminal also uses powershell and here you also using powershell to run so please try to run without powershell normal cmd

On light note, Maybe you should take your words back.

What i feel i doesn't behave on terminals of system if you use cmd, wsl, powershell, bash anything as we are using same command and same applies on Code editors terminal both shows same time of build status without making changes to codebase. So using Systems terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other and using code editors terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other both takes equal amount and almost neck to neck time to execute.

Also i tried with maven in built terminal it also takes roughly 30 and more mins. You can see it in above provide Screenshots.

Build status without making changes to codebase

[Praveen7294]

@Brijeshthummar02 try to run without using powershell just go to the project root directory open cmd and then run mvn clean verify
in intellij idea terminal also uses powershell and here you also using powershell to run so please try to run without powershell normal cmd

On light note, Maybe you should take your words back.

What i feel i doesn't behave on terminals of system if you use cmd, wsl, powershell, bash anything as we are using same command and same applies on Code editors terminal both shows same time of build status without making changes to codebase. So using Systems terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other and using code editors terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other both takes equal amount and almost neck to neck time to execute.

Also i tried with maven in built terminal it also takes roughly 30 and more mins. You can see it in above provide Screenshots.

Build status without making changes to codebase

Sorry, Like I said, I only suggested to try — it may or may not work.

[Brijeshthummar02]

@Brijeshthummar02 try to run without using powershell just go to the project root directory open cmd and then run mvn clean verify
in intellij idea terminal also uses powershell and here you also using powershell to run so please try to run without powershell normal cmd

On light note, Maybe you should take your words back.
What i feel i doesn't behave on terminals of system if you use cmd, wsl, powershell, bash anything as we are using same command and same applies on Code editors terminal both shows same time of build status without making changes to codebase. So using Systems terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other and using code editors terminal like cmd, powershell, git bash or any other both takes equal amount and almost neck to neck time to execute.
Also i tried with maven in built terminal it also takes roughly 30 and more mins. You can see it in above provide Screenshots.
Build status without making changes to codebase

Sorry, Like I said, I only suggested to try — it may or may not work.

My bad i said it in sarcastic way no need to be sorry, You shared what you feel best regarding the issue, even i am learner.