Declare Maven dependency as test runtime only

Question

What is the best way to declare a Maven dependency as only being used for the test runtime (but not test compilation) class path?

Specifically, I want slf4j-api

Answer 1

Since maven-dependency-plugin 2.10 (revision 1649454, Jan 2015), you can also add to the configuration a list of ignoredDependencies, ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies and ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies.