diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 88c762e..fe40e3f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@
 			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+			<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/sun/syndication/io/impl/DateParser.java b/src/main/java/com/sun/syndication/io/impl/DateParser.java
index 4e2e294..1372aef 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/sun/syndication/io/impl/DateParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/sun/syndication/io/impl/DateParser.java
@@ -120,9 +120,9 @@ public class DateParser {
                 if (pp.getIndex() != sDate.length()) {
                     d = null;
                 }
-                // System.out.println("pp["+pp.getIndex()+"] s["+sDate+" m["+masks[i]+"] d["+d+"]");
+                // LOG.debug("pp["+pp.getIndex()+"] s["+sDate+" m["+masks[i]+"] d["+d+"]");
             } catch (final Exception ex1) {
-                // System.out.println("s: "+sDate+" m: "+masks[i]+" d: "+null);
+                // LOG.debug("s: "+sDate+" m: "+masks[i]+" d: "+null);
             }
         }
         return d;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/sun/syndication/unittest/TestSyndFeedRSS090.java b/src/test/java/com/sun/syndication/unittest/TestSyndFeedRSS090.java
index 95e5a3f..34b40cb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/sun/syndication/unittest/TestSyndFeedRSS090.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/sun/syndication/unittest/TestSyndFeedRSS090.java
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public class TestSyndFeedRSS090 extends SyndFeedTest {
     public void testEntryDescription() throws Exception {
         // I think this should be should work, but it can't seem to find the
         // description
-        // System.out.println(((SyndEntry)getCachedSyndFeed().getEntries().get(0)).getDescription());
+        // LOG.debug(((SyndEntry)getCachedSyndFeed().getEntries().get(0)).getDescription());
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml b/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44dea42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<configuration>
+
+	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+		<encoder>
+			<pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger - %msg%n</pattern>
+		</encoder>
+	</appender>
+
+	<root level="warn">
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+	</root>
+
+</configuration>
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