diff --git a/.github/workflows/shell-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/shell-tests.yml
index 88baf31d0..dccce5814 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/shell-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/shell-tests.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
-name: Test Shell Script with Bats
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Shell Bats CI
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -41,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
           fi
 
           # Extract the tar.gz file
-          tar -xzvf "$TAR_FILE" -C $HOME
+          tar -xzf "$TAR_FILE" -C $HOME
 
           # Get the directory name of the extracted content
           EXTRACTED_DIR=$(tar -tf "$TAR_FILE" | head -n 1 | cut -f1 -d"/")
diff --git a/opennlp-distr/src/test/sh/test_opennlp.bats b/opennlp-distr/src/test/sh/test_opennlp.bats
index b181858d1..a47fefc0e 100644
--- a/opennlp-distr/src/test/sh/test_opennlp.bats
+++ b/opennlp-distr/src/test/sh/test_opennlp.bats
@@ -20,9 +20,15 @@ setup() {
   # Run the command and capture output
   run echo "$input" | opennlp SimpleTokenizer
 
-  # Validate the output
-  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-  [ "${output}" = "$expected_output" ]
+  # Debugging: Log the status and output
+  echo "Status: $status"
+  echo "Output: $output"
+
+  # Validate the command executed successfully
+  [ "$status" -eq 0 ] || echo "Error: opennlp SimpleTokenizer failed"
+
+  # Validate the output matches the expected result
+  [ "${output}" = "$expected_output" ] || echo "Unexpected output: ${output}"
 }
 
 # Teardown the environment after running the tests