How to publish the artifacts at the end using maven-release plugin - maven-release-plugin

Question

I have a multi-module maven project. I'm using maven-release plugin to publish the artifact to maven repository. I'm using following command to do the above task.
mvn -B clean release:clean release:prepare release:perform -DautoVersionSubmodules=true '-DscmCommentPrefix=[maven-release-plugin]'
In one of the sub-module, i have a Unit test failure, but still i see the remaining modules are published to maven repo, except failed module.
Is there a way to publish all sub-modules only when the Unit tests for all modules pass?
Following is the maven pom configuration i have in Parent pom.xml.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.3</version>
<configuration>
<tagNameFormat>v#{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
<localCheckout>true</localCheckout>
<autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
<useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
<localCheckout>true</localCheckout>
<pushChanges>true</pushChanges>
<mavenExecutorId>forked-path</mavenExecutorId>
<preparationGoals>clean deploy -U -B</preparationGoals>
<goals>clean install</goals>
<arguments>-Prelease</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 1

The maven-deploy-plugin has a command line option "-DdeployAtEnd=true" that will accomplish this. But because maven-release-plugin runs the deploy command in its own instance of Maven, you have to pass it into this instance using the maven-release-plugin -Darguments option.
Overall, your command will look like this.
mvn -B clean release:clean release:prepare -Darguments=\"-DdeployAtEnd=true\" release:perform -DautoVersionSubmodules=true '-DscmCommentPrefix=[maven-release-plugin]