The Oracle service should have a log file that you can set a debug level
on to see what is being passed to it. That will tell you if any
connection is made when the tests fail and what is being passed.
solved it. The connection machine name, port is in .properties files.
The test wasn't finding the right .properties file which was in a package folder under src/test/java. I moved that path under src/test/resources.
There are multiple properties files. The tests don't work with the default app file, this file needs to override it.
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