Aligned back with standard maven 'skipTests' property functionality which makes the maven-surefire-plugin (and also maven-failsafe-plugin) skip tests execution.

Change-Id: Ib173604e8d9a1f186e68f1e744d4731ee4d23d23

Author: stepanv

pom.xml

@@ -689,6 +689,12 @@
             <id>testsSkip</id>
             <activation>
                 <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
+                <!-- this is how to align back with maven standards where property 'skipTests' makes maven-surefire-plugin
+                (and also maven-failsafe-plugin) skip tests execution -->
+                <property>
+                    <name>skipTests</name>
+                    <value>true</value>
+                </property>
             </activation>
             <properties>
                 <skip.release.tests>-Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dskip.tests=true</skip.release.tests>