diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c498126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+FROM php:8.4-cli
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install zip unzip -y
+
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=composer:2.8 /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
+COPY ./src ./src
+COPY ./tests ./tests
+COPY composer.* ./
+COPY .php-cs-fixer.dist.php ./
+
+RUN composer install --no-interaction --no-scripts --no-autoloader --prefer-dist
+
+
+RUN composer dump-autoload --optimize
+
+COPY ./entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/
+RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5154add..ed3da0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -284,9 +284,16 @@ Retrieves and types a value from `$_GET`.
 
 ## Testing
 
+If you have a development environment set up with PHP 8.4, set the host file ‘endpoint-test’ to point to 127.0.0.1 and run
+
 ```bash
 composer test
 ```
+Otherwise, use the docker found in the project that sets up the environment and runs the test suite, executing  
+
+```bash
+docker compose run --rm --remove-orphans --build do-tests && docker compose down
+```
 
 ## License
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b8c3b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+services:
+  do-tests:
+    build: 
+        context: .
+    volumes:
+      - ./src:/app/src
+      - ./tests:/app/tests
+      - ./vendor:/app/vendor
+      - ./composer.json:/app/composer.json
+      - ./composer.lock:/app/composer.lock
+    networks:
+      - typeidentifier-network
+    depends_on:
+      endpoint-test:
+        condition: service_started
+  endpoint-test:
+    image: php:8.4-apache
+    volumes:
+      - ./src:/var/www/html/src
+      - ./tests:/var/www/html/tests
+      - ./vendor:/var/www/html/vendor
+      - ./composer.json:/var/www/html/composer.json
+      - ./composer.lock:/var/www/html/composer.lock
+    networks:
+      - typeidentifier-network
+        
+networks:
+   typeidentifier-network:
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9b1d59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+composer install
+
+php vendor/bin/phpunit tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeTest.php
+php vendor/bin/phpunit tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeRequestTest.php 
+ 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeRequestTest.php b/tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeRequestTest.php
index f906804..8357da3 100644
--- a/tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeRequestTest.php
+++ b/tests/EffectivePrimitiveTypeRequestTest.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ private function callEntrypoint(string $httpMethodString, string $inputParameter
     {
         $httpMethod = strtoupper($httpMethodString);
         $ch = curl_init();
-        $url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/entrypoint.php';
+        $url = 'http://endpoint-test/tests/entrypoint.php';
 
         $options = [
             CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
@@ -74,6 +74,6 @@ private function callEntrypoint(string $httpMethodString, string $inputParameter
         curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
         $response = curl_exec($ch);
 
-        return json_encode($response);
+        return json_decode($response,true);
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/entrypoint.php b/tests/entrypoint.php
index bc08f56..6dbd03c 100644
--- a/tests/entrypoint.php
+++ b/tests/entrypoint.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
+require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
 header('Content-type:application/json');
 
 $epti = new TypeIdentifier\Service\EffectivePrimitiveTypeIdentifierService();