Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client.OracleException: 'ORA-00942: table or view does not exist' error with EntityFramework Core v3.1 - oracle

Question

I'm trying to build my first .NET project in Visual Studio 2019 that uses EntityFramework Core v3.1 library in order to retrieve the records from an Oracle database table.
The sample project that I've created for this has the following configuration:
it's a ASP.NET Core MVC App (Model-View-Controller) project that uses .NET Core 3.1
contains the following third party nuget packages: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 3.1.14, Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore 3.19.110
The 'Startup' class is defined as follows:
public class Startup
{
public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
{
Configuration = configuration;
}
public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddDbContext<AppDbContext>(options =>
{
options.UseOracle(Configuration.GetConnectionString("MyConnectionString"));
});
services.AddScoped<ITestRepository, TestsRepository>();
services.AddControllersWithViews();
}
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
}
else
{
app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
// The default HSTS value is 30 days. You may want to change this for production scenarios, see https://aka.ms/aspnetcore-hsts.
app.UseHsts();
}
app.UseHttpsRedirection();
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseRouting();
app.UseAuthorization();
app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
name: "default",
pattern: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
});
}
}
'MyConnectionString' has been specified properly(I'm 100% sure that it is no mistake here) in the 'appsettings.json' file.
I've defined a 'TestsRepository' class in order to retrieve the 'Test' records from the database as follows:
public class TestsRepository : ITestRepository
{
public readonly AppDbContext _appDbContext;
public TestsRepository(AppDbContext appDbContext)
{
_appDbContext = appDbContext;
}
public IEnumerable<TEST> AllTests
{
get
{
return _appDbContext.Tests;
}
}
}
The 'AppDbContext' is defined as follows:
public class AppDbContext : DbContext
{
public AppDbContext(DbContextOptions<AppDbContext> options) : base(options)
{
}
public DbSet<TEST> Tests { get; set; }
}
The 'TEST' class is defined as follows:
public class TEST
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string NAME { get; set; }
}
The 'HomeController' class is defined as follows:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
private readonly ITestRepository _testRepository;
public HomeController(ITestRepository testRepository)
{
_testRepository = testRepository;
}
public IActionResult Index()
{
var tests = _testRepository.AllTests.ToList();
return View();
}
public IActionResult Privacy()
{
return View();
}
[ResponseCache(Duration = 0, Location = ResponseCacheLocation.None, NoStore = true)]
public IActionResult Error()
{
return View(new ErrorViewModel { RequestId = Activity.Current?.Id ?? HttpContext.TraceIdentifier });
}
}
The 'ITestRepository' class is defined as follows:
public interface ITestRepository
{
IEnumerable<TEST> AllTests { get; }
}
When I'm running the project, the following exception is thrown when executing the statement:
var tests = _testRepository.AllTests.ToList();
from 'HomeController' -> 'Index' action:
Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client.OracleException: 'ORA-00942: table or view does not exist'.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong because the 'TEST' table exists with the proper fields/columns in the specified Oracle database from the 'MyConnectionString'.
Please help me with this issue!