My Testing Thoughts

Transitive dependency in Maven: Let say you have a library A1 that depends on library A2 and this A2 library further depends on the library A3. So your library A3 is a Transitive Dependency of your library A1. Excluded dependency in Maven: Let say you have a library A1 that depends on library A2, and this A2 library further depends on the library A3. If required,  we can explicitly exclude library A3 for the library A1. We can use the “exclusion” element to exclude it. Such dependencies are called Excluded dependencies in Maven.