Here is the full stacktrace. I just checked any dependecy conflit for Slf4j and I didn't find any issue
at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:164)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:110)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.invokeProvider(SurefireStarter.java:172)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireStarter.runSuitesInProcessWhenForked(SurefireStarter.java:104)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:70)
Caused by: org.testng.TestNGException:
An error occurred while instantiating class com.testApp.cpc.apps.pcshen.dect.SimpleTest: org.slf4j.Logger$$EnhancerByMockitoWithCGLIB$$1c6d013e cannot be cast to org.mockito.cglib.proxy.Factory
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance1(ClassHelper.java:398)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance(ClassHelper.java:299)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getDefaultInstance(ClassImpl.java:110)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getInstances(ClassImpl.java:195)
at org.testng.internal.TestNGClassFinder.<init>(TestNGClassFinder.java:120)
at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:409)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:235)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:205)
at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:153)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner$DefaultTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:522)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:157)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.<init>(SuiteRunner.java:111)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1272)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1259)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1113)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1030)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:70)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.executeMulti(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:157)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:97)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:111)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.slf4j.Logger$$EnhancerByMockitoWithCGLIB$$1c6d013e cannot be cast to org.mockito.cglib.proxy.Factory