diff --git a/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
index b82a05a0..01e7862d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/portalbackend-integration-tests.yml
@@ -11,18 +11,20 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout the repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
       
       - name: Set up python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.8
 
-      - name: Install Docker Compose
-        run: |
-          sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-          sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-          docker-compose --version
+      - name: Install docker compose
+        uses: KengoTODA/actions-setup-docker-compose@v1
+        with:
+          version: '2.30.1'
+
+      - name: Docker compose version
+        run: docker compose version
 
       - name: Deploy portalbackend and exareme2
         working-directory: ./dev/
@@ -31,6 +33,10 @@ 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..be382960 100755
--- a/dev/start.sh
+++ b/dev/start.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/env bash
 
-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
+docker compose --env-file ../.versions_env down
+docker compose --env-file ../.versions_env up -d
 
 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
     )