diff --git a/contrib/seekable_format/tests/.gitignore b/contrib/seekable_format/tests/.gitignore
index f831eaf37..b59d08b34 100644
--- a/contrib/seekable_format/tests/.gitignore
+++ b/contrib/seekable_format/tests/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 seekable_tests
+data.txt
diff --git a/contrib/seekable_format/tests/Makefile b/contrib/seekable_format/tests/Makefile
index a81f2229f..a23c0f43c 100644
--- a/contrib/seekable_format/tests/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/seekable_format/tests/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ SEEKABLE_OBJS = ../zstdseek_compress.c ../zstdseek_decompress.c $(ZSTDLIB)
 .PHONY: default clean test
 default: test
 
-test: seekable_tests
+test: seekable_tests parallel_compression_test
 	./seekable_tests
 
 $(ZSTDLIB):
@@ -32,7 +32,27 @@ $(ZSTDLIB):
 
 seekable_tests : $(SEEKABLE_OBJS)
 
+EXAMPLES_PATH = ../examples
+PARALLEL_COMPRESSION = $(EXAMPLES_PATH)/parallel_compression
+
+DATAGEN_PATH = ../../../tests
+DATAGEN = $(DATAGEN_PATH)/datagen
+
+$(PARALLEL_COMPRESSION):
+	$(MAKE) -C $(EXAMPLES_PATH) parallel_compression
+
+$(DATAGEN):
+	$(MAKE) -C $(DATAGEN_PATH) datagen
+
+data.txt: $(DATAGEN)
+	$(DATAGEN) -g100M > $@
+
+parallel_compression_test: $(PARALLEL_COMPRESSION) data.txt
+	ulimit -Sv 102400; $(PARALLEL_COMPRESSION) data.txt 1048576 2
+
+.PHONY: parallel_compression_test parallel_comp
+
 clean:
 	@$(RM) core *.o tmp* result* *.zst \
-		seekable_tests
+		seekable_tests data.txt
 	@echo Cleaning completed