diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/templates/service.yaml b/.azure-pipelines/templates/service.yaml
index f90dcc222..17fa6bc63 100755
--- a/.azure-pipelines/templates/service.yaml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/templates/service.yaml
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ stages:
           - task: DownloadPipelineArtifact@2
             displayName: Download artifacts from ${{ dependency.name }} dependency
             continueOnError: ${{ dependency.continueOnError }}
+            condition: ${{ dependency.condition }}
             inputs:
               artifactName: ${{ dependency.artifact }}
               source: ${{ dependency.source }}
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yaml b/azure-pipelines.yaml
index 0b8e0b93b..4f26b7ade 100755
--- a/azure-pipelines.yaml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yaml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ parameters:
             artifact: backend
             patterns: '.stack/**/*'
             continueOnError: true
+            condition: eq(variables.releaseTest, false)
         artifacts: |
           bin/uniworx
           bin/uniworxdb