A test automation library based on common other best practice open source libraries. It adds missing functionalities but does not reinvent the wheel. Just glues stuff together nicely and adds some sprinkles.
For end-users it can become a quite tricky task to configure the logging in their test suite for several reasons:
Neodymium ships with a bunch of several logger bindings, one them (log4j-slf4j) even not compatible with the used version of SLF4j (v2)
Selection of logger binding depends on the order of shipped bindings in the classpath
slf4j-simple on my machine
Neodymium ships logging configuration files for two disting logging backends: Log4j (v2) and JUL
As this is a testing library, it should depend on SLF4j as logging facade solely and must not ship any logger bindings. It's up to the end-user to pick a proper binding according to the logging backend they want to use. As a consequence, Neodymium should also not include any logging configuration files.
In case, Neodymium requires some logging binding for testing and development purposes, it should declare such a dependency in a proper scope in its POM such that it won't be pulled as transitive dependency (e.g. runtime or test). And, Maven need to be configured to not include any logging configuration files in the produced artifacts.
For end-users it can become a quite tricky task to configure the logging in their test suite for several reasons:
As this is a testing library, it should depend on SLF4j as logging facade solely and must not ship any logger bindings. It's up to the end-user to pick a proper binding according to the logging backend they want to use. As a consequence, Neodymium should also not include any logging configuration files.
In case, Neodymium requires some logging binding for testing and development purposes, it should declare such a dependency in a proper scope in its POM such that it won't be pulled as transitive dependency (e.g.
runtimeortest). And, Maven need to be configured to not include any logging configuration files in the produced artifacts.