diff --git a/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
index b82a05a0..ca80be02 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Get deployment status
         run: docker ps
 
+      - name: Install python dependencies
+        working-directory: ./dev/
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt
+
       - name: Run the dev tests
         working-directory: ./dev/
         run: pytest -k "not test_federation_info.py"
diff --git a/dev/start.sh b/dev/start.sh
index 2e6bb42a..c5dafec1 100755
--- a/dev/start.sh
+++ b/dev/start.sh
@@ -3,17 +3,14 @@
 docker-compose --env-file ../.versions_env down
 docker-compose --env-file ../.versions_env up -d
 
-echo -n "Installing pip requirements ..."
-pip install -r requirements.txt
-
 echo -n "Waiting for containers to start ..."
 sleep 10
 
 echo -n "Loading data into exareme2 db ..."
 docker exec dev-exareme2_global_mipdb-1 mipdb init
-docker exec dev-exareme2_local_mipdb-1 /bin/bash -c "mipdb init && mipdb load-folder /opt/data"
+docker exec dev_exareme2_local_mipdb_1 /bin/bash -c "mipdb init && mipdb load-folder /opt/data"
 
-sleep 10
+sleep 20
 
 echo -n "Triggering engine to see the added pathologies ..."
 curl -X POST 172.17.0.1:5000/wla
diff --git a/dev/test.sh b/dev/test.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5dccf476..00000000
--- a/dev/test.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/env bash
-
-pytest -k "not test_federation_info.py" tests
-pytest tests/test_federation_info.py
-
diff --git a/dev/tests/test_federation_info.py b/dev/tests/test_federation_info.py
index 16bfeefd..f27cb498 100644
--- a/dev/tests/test_federation_info.py
+++ b/dev/tests/test_federation_info.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 
 def test_federation_info():
-    cmd = f"docker logs dev-portalbackend-1 | python3 ../federation_info.py show-portal-backend-audit-entries"
+    cmd = f"docker logs dev-portalbackend_1 | python3 ../federation_info.py show-portal-backend-audit-entries"
     res = subprocess.run(
         cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE
     )