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Description

Add tests for NoOpTracerProvider in opentelemetry-instrumentation-kafka-python.

The changes cover:

• Producer instrumentation using a NoOp tracer, verifying that the original send operation is called and the span is not recording.
• Consumer instrumentation using a NoOp tracer, verifying that the original consume operation is called and the span is not recording.
• KafkaInstrumentor.instrument(tracer_provider=...), verifying that the provided tracer provider is forwarded, the instrumented send operation executes, and the resulting span is non-recording with an invalid span context.

No production code or additional dependencies were changed.

Fixes #977

Type of change

• Tests / improved test coverage
• Bug fix
• New feature
• Breaking change
• Documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

Executed locally on Windows with Python 3.14:

• py -m tox -e py314-test-instrumentation-kafka-python-latest — 21 passed.
• py -m tox -e py314-test-instrumentation-kafka-python-oldest — 21 passed.
• py -m tox -e ruff — passed.
• Pylint checks on both modified test files — 10.00/10.
• git diff --cached --check — passed.

Kafka operations are mocked; no Kafka broker is required.

Does This PR Require a Core Repo Change?

• Yes
• No

Checklist

• Followed the project's style guidelines
• Unit tests have been added
• Changelog updated — test-only change; requesting Skip Changelog
• Documentation updated — not required for test-only changes

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• ✅ login: Gabosh035 / name: Marco Yataco (5bb65ae, c0469e6)

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