diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 997ea041..be0152d6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
 language: python
 python:
-  - "2.7"
-  - "3.5"
+  #- "2.7"
+  #- "3.5"
   - "3.6"
+  - "3.7"
 
-  # command to install dependencies
+# this ubuntu distribution has sure the libopenmpi-dev packages available
+dist: bionic
+
+# command to install dependencies
 install:
+  - sudo apt-get update
+  - sudo apt install libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin
+  - pip install mpi4py
   - python setup.py install
   - pip install coveralls
   - pip install pathos
@@ -15,7 +22,7 @@ install:
   - pip install scipy
   - pip install click
   - pip install deap
-  # Need to force pytest-cov to v2.6 as current version (2.6.1) is deprecated
+  # Need to force pytest-cov to v2.6 as current version (2.6.1) is deprecated and pytest:3.10.1
   - pip install pytest==3.10.1 pytest-pep8 pytest-cov==2.6
   # Use docutils to generate html describe
   - pip install docutils
@@ -23,9 +30,10 @@ install:
   - pip install tables
 
 
+
 script:
   - pip uninstall spotpy -y
   - py.test  spotpy/unittests/test_* --cov spotpy --cov-report term-missing -v
-
+  - mpirun -c 2 python spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel.py 10
 after_success:
   - coveralls
diff --git a/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel.py b/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel.py
index 264bfa90..15af96d0 100644
--- a/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel.py
+++ b/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 print(dds_elapsed)
 
 benchmarks_duration["dds_duration"].append(dds_elapsed)
-benchmarks_duration["dds_like"].append(dds_sampler.status.objectivefunction)
+benchmarks_duration["dds_like"].append(dds_sampler.status.objectivefunction_max)
 benchmarks_duration["rep"].append(rep)
 
 print(benchmarks_duration)
diff --git a/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel_data.json b/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel_data.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3e7bcd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spotpy/examples/dds/dds_parallel_data.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"dds_duration": [], "rep": [], "dds_like": []}
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