diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1b3f3e1..b48fcb0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ jobs:
       run: sbt test assembly
     - name: Run linter
       run: sbt "scalafixAll --check"
+    - name: Run locust tests
+      run: ./tests/run.sh
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 822b674..bb826aa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 .metals
 .vscode
 
+# for python test env
+/testEnv/
+
 # for various captcha
 /known/
 /unknown/
diff --git a/tests/run.sh b/tests/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f216b78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+python3 -m venv testEnv
+source ./testEnv/activate
+pip install locust
+java -jar target/scala-2.13/LibreCaptcha.jar &
+JAVA_PID=$!
+sleep 4
+
+locust -f tests/locustfile.py
+
+kill $JAVA_PID