Setup Test Pilot

Sets up Oracle Test Pilot for Third-Party Software.

This GitHub Action helps the integration of Oracle Test Pilot for Third-Party Software within your GitHub Action workflows. It provides several actions:

• create: used to request the provisioning of the OCI service to test (typically a database)

• delete: used to de-provision the OCI service tested

• skip-testing: used to check if this GitHub pull request (including all the associated commits) should not perform any non-regression test, for example if changes involve files or folders that do not contain source code. By using the output of this action, numerous GitHub Action workflows can see their runtime durations drastically reduced.

Supported platforms:

• Linux

Inputs

Following inputs may be used as step.with keys:

Name	Required	Default	Description
action	Yes	create	A valid action among: create, delete, skip-testing.
oci-service		autonomous-transaction-processing-serverless	A valid Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service to be tested. Valid OCI service are: autonomous-transaction-processing-serverless-19c, autonomous-transaction-processing-serverless-26ai, base-database-service-19c, base-database-service-21c, base-database-service-23ai, and base-database-service-26ai.
user			The database username to be used for database creation. If multiple users (up to 10) are required then enter a comma-separated list of usernames (no space). Limit usernames to 118 chars maximum. Accepted chars are: upper case letters, lower case letters, digits, colon, hyphen, and underscore.
prefix_list			A comma separated list of file(s) or folder(s) that if changed should not trigger any test (example: folder containing documentation).

Outputs

Following outputs may be used as step.if or for step.env keys:

Name	Output of Action	Description
database_host	create	The hostname of the database(s).
database_service	create	The database service name of the database(s).
database_password	create	The database password of the database(s).
database_version	create	The version of the database(s).
connection_string_suffix	create	The database connection string suffix (to be put after @), it can be used to build the full connection string.
skip_tests	skip-testing	'yes' if tests can be skipped, 'no' otherwise.

Usage

jobs:
  test:
    steps:
      # Look if committed files should trigger a build with tests
      - id: build_guard
        uses: oracle-actions/setup-testpilot@v1.0.22
        with:
          action: skip-testing
          prefix_list: .github/workflows/ci.yml,README.md,LICENSE,.gitignore

      # Create the database for testing only if tests must be run
      - id: create_database
        uses: oracle-actions/setup-testpilot@v1.0.22
        if: steps.build_guard.outputs.skip_tests == 'no'
        with:
          oci-service: base-database-service-26ai
          action: create
          user: test

      # Run the build and the tests against the database
      - name: Run build script
        if: steps.build_guard.outputs.skip_tests == 'no'
        env:
          RUNID: ${{ github.run_number }}
          DATABASE_HOST: ${{ steps.create_database.outputs.database_host }}
          DATABASE_SERVICE: ${{ steps.create_database.outputs.database_service }}
          DATABASE_PASSWORD: ${{ steps.create_database.outputs.database_password }}
        run: ./build.sh
        shell: bash

      # Delete the database for testing only if tests must be run
      - uses: oracle-actions/setup-testpilot@v1.0.22
        if: steps.build_guard.outputs.skip_tests == 'no'
        with:
          oci-service: base-database-service-26ai
          action: delete
          user: test

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions from the community. Please review our contribution guide.

Security

Please consult the security guide for our responsible security vulnerability disclosure process.

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Released under the Universal Permissive License v1.0 as shown at https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/.