diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index d19d42b291452..8ad6340c400b6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -340,6 +340,26 @@ One way to accomplish this is by executing the following command:
 ./mvnw test -f integration-tests/resteasy-jackson/ -Dtest=GreetingResourceTest
 ```
 
+### Build with multiple threads
+
+The following standard Maven option can be used to build with multiple threads to speed things up (here 0.5 threads per CPU core):
+
+```
+./mvnw install -T0.5C
+```
+
+Please note that running tests in parallel is not supported at the moment!
+
+### Don't build any test modules
+
+To omit building currently way over 100 pure test modules, run:
+
+```
+./mvnw install -Dno-test-modules
+```
+
+This can come in handy when you are only interested in the actual "productive" artifacts, e.g. when bisecting.
+
 #### Automatic incremental build
 
 :information_source: This feature is currently in testing mode. You're invited to give it a go and please reach out via [Zulip](https://quarkusio.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187038-dev) or GitHub in case something doesn't work as expected or you have ideas to improve things.
diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index a14eb85810d84..85cd285c932c9 100644
--- a/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -22,182 +22,8 @@
         <native.surefire.skip>${skipTests}</native.surefire.skip>
         <enforce-test-deps-scope.skip>true</enforce-test-deps-scope.skip>
     </properties>
-    <modules>
-        <module>avro-reload</module>
-        <module>bouncycastle</module>
-        <module>bouncycastle-fips</module>
-        <module>bouncycastle-fips-jsse</module>
-        <module>bouncycastle-jsse</module>
-        <module>funqy-amazon-lambda</module>
-        <module>funqy-google-cloud-functions</module>
-        <module>class-transformer</module>
-        <module>shared-library</module>
-        <module>hibernate-validator</module>
-        <module>common-jpa-entities</module>
-        <module>infinispan-client</module>
-        <module>devtools</module>
-        <module>devtools-registry-client</module>
-        <module>gradle</module>
-        <module>main</module>
-        <module>kafka</module>
-        <module>kafka-ssl</module>
-        <module>kafka-sasl</module>
-        <module>kafka-snappy</module>
-        <module>kafka-avro</module>
-        <module>kafka-avro-apicurio2</module>
-        <module>kafka-streams</module>
-        <module>kafka-devservices</module>
-        <module>jpa</module>
-        <module>jpa-mapping-xml</module>
-        <module>jpa-db2</module>
-        <module>jpa-derby</module>
-        <module>jpa-postgresql</module>
-        <module>jpa-postgresql-withxml</module>
-        <module>vault</module>
-        <module>vault-agroal</module>
-        <module>vault-app</module>
-        <module>jpa-mariadb</module>
-        <module>jpa-h2</module>
-        <module>jpa-mssql</module>
-        <module>jpa-mysql</module>
-        <module>jpa-oracle</module>
-        <module>hibernate-orm-panache</module>
-        <module>hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache</module>
-        <module>hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin</module>
-        <module>hibernate-reactive-db2</module>
-        <module>hibernate-reactive-mysql</module>
-        <module>hibernate-reactive-postgresql</module>
-        <module>hibernate-reactive-panache</module>
-        <module>hibernate-reactive-panache-blocking</module>
-        <module>hibernate-search-orm-elasticsearch</module>
-        <module>hibernate-search-orm-elasticsearch-aws</module>
-        <module>hibernate-orm-tenancy</module>
-        <module>hibernate-orm-envers</module>
-        <module>vertx-http</module>
-        <module>vertx-web</module>
-        <module>vertx-web-jackson</module>
-        <module>vertx</module>
-        <module>spring-di</module>
-        <module>spring-web</module>
-        <module>spring-data-jpa</module>
-        <module>spring-boot-properties</module>
-        <module>spring-cloud-config-client</module>
-        <module>spring-data-rest</module>
-        <module>infinispan-cache-jpa</module>
-        <module>elytron-security</module>
-        <module>elytron-security-oauth2</module>
-        <module>elytron-resteasy</module>
-        <module>elytron-undertow</module>
-        <module>flyway</module>
-        <module>liquibase</module>
-        <module>oidc</module>
-        <module>oidc-client</module>
-        <module>oidc-client-reactive</module>
-        <module>oidc-client-wiremock</module>
-        <module>oidc-token-propagation</module>
-        <module>smallrye-jwt-token-propagation</module>
-        <module>oidc-code-flow</module>
-        <module>oidc-tenancy</module>
-        <module>oidc-wiremock</module>
-        <module>keycloak-authorization</module>
-        <module>reactive-db2-client</module>
-        <module>reactive-pg-client</module>
-        <module>reactive-mysql-client</module>
-        <module>reactive-mssql-client</module>
-        <module>amazon-services</module>
-        <module>test-extension</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda-s3event</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda-stream-handler</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda-http</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda-rest</module>
-        <module>amazon-lambda-http-resteasy</module>
-        <module>container-image</module>
-        <module>kubernetes</module>
-        <module>kubernetes-client</module>
-        <module>kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc</module>
-        <module>openshift-client</module>
-        <module>tika</module>
-        <module>neo4j</module>
-        <module>mongodb-client</module>
-        <module>jackson</module>
-        <module>jsonb</module>
-        <module>resteasy-jackson</module>
-        <module>resteasy-mutiny</module>
-        <module>jgit</module>
-        <module>jsch</module>
-        <module>virtual-http</module>
-        <module>virtual-http-resteasy</module>
-        <module>artemis-core</module>
-        <module>artemis-jms</module>
-        <module>maven</module>
-        <module>scala</module>
-        <module>kotlin</module>
-        <module>mongodb-panache</module>
-        <module>mongodb-panache-kotlin</module>
-        <module>mongodb-rest-data-panache</module>
-        <module>narayana-stm</module>
-        <module>narayana-jta</module>
-        <module>narayana-lra</module>
-        <module>elytron-security-jdbc</module>
-        <module>elytron-security-ldap</module>
-        <module>vertx-graphql</module>
-        <module>smallrye-config</module>
-        <module>smallrye-context-propagation</module>
-        <module>smallrye-metrics</module>
-        <module>smallrye-graphql</module>
-        <module>smallrye-graphql-client</module>
-        <module>smallrye-opentracing</module>
-        <module>jpa-without-entity</module>
-        <module>quartz</module>
-        <module>redis-client</module>
-        <module>logging-gelf</module>
-        <module>cache</module>
-        <module>qute</module>
-        <module>bootstrap-config</module>
-        <module>injectmock</module>
-        <module>reactive-messaging-amqp</module>
-        <module>reactive-messaging-kafka</module>
-        <module>reactive-messaging-http</module>
-        <module>rest-client</module>
-        <module>resteasy-reactive-kotlin</module>
-        <module>resteasy-reactive-rest-client</module>
-        <module>resteasy-reactive-rest-client-multipart</module>
-        <module>packaging</module>
-        <module>simple with space</module>
-        <module>consul-config</module>
-        <module>picocli</module>
-        <module>picocli-native</module>
-        <module>webjars-locator</module>
-        <module>devmode</module>
-        <module>ide-launcher</module>
-        <module>elasticsearch-rest-client</module>
-        <module>elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client</module>
-        <module>micrometer-mp-metrics</module>
-        <module>micrometer-prometheus</module>
-        <module>opentelemetry</module>
-        <module>logging-json</module>
-        <module>jaxp</module>
-        <module>mailer</module>
-        <module>native-config-profile</module>
-        <module>logging-min-level-unset</module>
-        <module>logging-min-level-set</module>
-        <module>redis-devservices</module>
 
-        <!-- gRPC tests -->
-        <module>grpc-tls</module>
-        <module>grpc-plain-text-gzip</module>
-        <module>grpc-plain-text-mutiny</module>
-        <module>grpc-mutual-auth</module>
-        <module>grpc-streaming</module>
-        <module>grpc-interceptors</module>
-        <module>grpc-proto-v2</module>
-        <module>grpc-health</module>
-        <module>grpc-hibernate</module>
-        <module>grpc-hibernate-reactive</module>
-        <module>google-cloud-functions-http</module>
-        <module>google-cloud-functions</module>
-    </modules>
+    <!-- modules are in profile test-modules -->
 
     <build>
         <plugins>
@@ -279,6 +105,191 @@
     </dependencyManagement>
 
     <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>test-modules</id>
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>!no-test-modules</name>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>avro-reload</module>
+                <module>bouncycastle</module>
+                <module>bouncycastle-fips</module>
+                <module>bouncycastle-fips-jsse</module>
+                <module>bouncycastle-jsse</module>
+                <module>funqy-amazon-lambda</module>
+                <module>funqy-google-cloud-functions</module>
+                <module>class-transformer</module>
+                <module>shared-library</module>
+                <module>hibernate-validator</module>
+                <module>common-jpa-entities</module>
+                <module>infinispan-client</module>
+                <module>devtools</module>
+                <module>devtools-registry-client</module>
+                <module>gradle</module>
+                <module>main</module>
+                <module>kafka</module>
+                <module>kafka-ssl</module>
+                <module>kafka-sasl</module>
+                <module>kafka-snappy</module>
+                <module>kafka-avro</module>
+                <module>kafka-avro-apicurio2</module>
+                <module>kafka-streams</module>
+                <module>kafka-devservices</module>
+                <module>jpa</module>
+                <module>jpa-mapping-xml</module>
+                <module>jpa-db2</module>
+                <module>jpa-derby</module>
+                <module>jpa-postgresql</module>
+                <module>jpa-postgresql-withxml</module>
+                <module>vault</module>
+                <module>vault-agroal</module>
+                <module>vault-app</module>
+                <module>jpa-mariadb</module>
+                <module>jpa-h2</module>
+                <module>jpa-mssql</module>
+                <module>jpa-mysql</module>
+                <module>jpa-oracle</module>
+                <module>hibernate-orm-panache</module>
+                <module>hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache</module>
+                <module>hibernate-orm-panache-kotlin</module>
+                <module>hibernate-reactive-db2</module>
+                <module>hibernate-reactive-mysql</module>
+                <module>hibernate-reactive-postgresql</module>
+                <module>hibernate-reactive-panache</module>
+                <module>hibernate-reactive-panache-blocking</module>
+                <module>hibernate-search-orm-elasticsearch</module>
+                <module>hibernate-search-orm-elasticsearch-aws</module>
+                <module>hibernate-orm-tenancy</module>
+                <module>hibernate-orm-envers</module>
+                <module>vertx-http</module>
+                <module>vertx-web</module>
+                <module>vertx-web-jackson</module>
+                <module>vertx</module>
+                <module>spring-di</module>
+                <module>spring-web</module>
+                <module>spring-data-jpa</module>
+                <module>spring-boot-properties</module>
+                <module>spring-cloud-config-client</module>
+                <module>spring-data-rest</module>
+                <module>infinispan-cache-jpa</module>
+                <module>elytron-security</module>
+                <module>elytron-security-oauth2</module>
+                <module>elytron-resteasy</module>
+                <module>elytron-undertow</module>
+                <module>flyway</module>
+                <module>liquibase</module>
+                <module>oidc</module>
+                <module>oidc-client</module>
+                <module>oidc-client-reactive</module>
+                <module>oidc-client-wiremock</module>
+                <module>oidc-token-propagation</module>
+                <module>smallrye-jwt-token-propagation</module>
+                <module>oidc-code-flow</module>
+                <module>oidc-tenancy</module>
+                <module>oidc-wiremock</module>
+                <module>keycloak-authorization</module>
+                <module>reactive-db2-client</module>
+                <module>reactive-pg-client</module>
+                <module>reactive-mysql-client</module>
+                <module>reactive-mssql-client</module>
+                <module>amazon-services</module>
+                <module>test-extension</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda-s3event</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda-stream-handler</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda-http</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda-rest</module>
+                <module>amazon-lambda-http-resteasy</module>
+                <module>container-image</module>
+                <module>kubernetes</module>
+                <module>kubernetes-client</module>
+                <module>kubernetes-service-binding-jdbc</module>
+                <module>openshift-client</module>
+                <module>tika</module>
+                <module>neo4j</module>
+                <module>mongodb-client</module>
+                <module>jackson</module>
+                <module>jsonb</module>
+                <module>resteasy-jackson</module>
+                <module>resteasy-mutiny</module>
+                <module>jgit</module>
+                <module>jsch</module>
+                <module>virtual-http</module>
+                <module>virtual-http-resteasy</module>
+                <module>artemis-core</module>
+                <module>artemis-jms</module>
+                <module>maven</module>
+                <module>scala</module>
+                <module>kotlin</module>
+                <module>mongodb-panache</module>
+                <module>mongodb-panache-kotlin</module>
+                <module>mongodb-rest-data-panache</module>
+                <module>narayana-stm</module>
+                <module>narayana-jta</module>
+                <module>narayana-lra</module>
+                <module>elytron-security-jdbc</module>
+                <module>elytron-security-ldap</module>
+                <module>vertx-graphql</module>
+                <module>smallrye-config</module>
+                <module>smallrye-context-propagation</module>
+                <module>smallrye-metrics</module>
+                <module>smallrye-graphql</module>
+                <module>smallrye-graphql-client</module>
+                <module>smallrye-opentracing</module>
+                <module>jpa-without-entity</module>
+                <module>quartz</module>
+                <module>redis-client</module>
+                <module>logging-gelf</module>
+                <module>cache</module>
+                <module>qute</module>
+                <module>bootstrap-config</module>
+                <module>injectmock</module>
+                <module>reactive-messaging-amqp</module>
+                <module>reactive-messaging-kafka</module>
+                <module>reactive-messaging-http</module>
+                <module>rest-client</module>
+                <module>resteasy-reactive-kotlin</module>
+                <module>resteasy-reactive-rest-client</module>
+                <module>resteasy-reactive-rest-client-multipart</module>
+                <module>packaging</module>
+                <module>simple with space</module>
+                <module>consul-config</module>
+                <module>picocli</module>
+                <module>picocli-native</module>
+                <module>webjars-locator</module>
+                <module>devmode</module>
+                <module>ide-launcher</module>
+                <module>elasticsearch-rest-client</module>
+                <module>elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client</module>
+                <module>micrometer-mp-metrics</module>
+                <module>micrometer-prometheus</module>
+                <module>opentelemetry</module>
+                <module>logging-json</module>
+                <module>jaxp</module>
+                <module>mailer</module>
+                <module>native-config-profile</module>
+                <module>logging-min-level-unset</module>
+                <module>logging-min-level-set</module>
+                <module>redis-devservices</module>
+
+                <!-- gRPC tests -->
+                <module>grpc-tls</module>
+                <module>grpc-plain-text-gzip</module>
+                <module>grpc-plain-text-mutiny</module>
+                <module>grpc-mutual-auth</module>
+                <module>grpc-streaming</module>
+                <module>grpc-interceptors</module>
+                <module>grpc-proto-v2</module>
+                <module>grpc-health</module>
+                <module>grpc-hibernate</module>
+                <module>grpc-hibernate-reactive</module>
+                <module>google-cloud-functions-http</module>
+                <module>google-cloud-functions</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+
         <!-- Common native image test profile
              WARNING: In this parent profile, you cannot override properties in a submodule!
                       Plugin config can only be overridden (to a certain point) via pluginManagement!
diff --git a/tcks/pom.xml b/tcks/pom.xml
index add58d4b43585..9dbc782887a86 100644
--- a/tcks/pom.xml
+++ b/tcks/pom.xml
@@ -12,28 +12,14 @@
     <artifactId>quarkus-tck-parent</artifactId>
     <name>Quarkus - TCK - Parent</name>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
-    
-    <modules>
-        <module>microprofile-config</module>
-        <module>microprofile-context-propagation</module>
-        <module>microprofile-fault-tolerance</module>
-        <module>microprofile-health</module>
-        <module>microprofile-jwt</module>
-        <module>microprofile-graphql</module>
-        <module>microprofile-metrics</module>
-        <module>microprofile-reactive-messaging</module>
-        <module>microprofile-rest-client</module>
-        <module>microprofile-rest-client-reactive</module>
-        <module>microprofile-openapi</module>
-        <module>microprofile-opentracing</module>
-        <module>resteasy-reactive</module>
-    </modules>
 
     <properties>
         <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
         <enforce-test-deps-scope.skip>true</enforce-test-deps-scope.skip>
     </properties>
 
+    <!-- modules are in profile test-modules -->
+
     <build>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>
@@ -83,4 +69,29 @@
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
 
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>test-modules</id>
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>!no-test-modules</name>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <modules>
+                <module>microprofile-config</module>
+                <module>microprofile-context-propagation</module>
+                <module>microprofile-fault-tolerance</module>
+                <module>microprofile-health</module>
+                <module>microprofile-jwt</module>
+                <module>microprofile-graphql</module>
+                <module>microprofile-metrics</module>
+                <module>microprofile-reactive-messaging</module>
+                <module>microprofile-rest-client</module>
+                <module>microprofile-rest-client-reactive</module>
+                <module>microprofile-openapi</module>
+                <module>microprofile-opentracing</module>
+                <module>resteasy-reactive</module>
+            </modules>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
 </project>