Test Composer
Testing in Antithesis requires a test template: a way to exercise the functionality of your system as a whole.
We use the term “test template” to mean something broader than most people do when they think of “tests.” A test template in Antithesis is a guide the system uses to generate thousands of test cases that will run over a multitude of system states.
Because autonomous testing requires a slightly different mindset than the example-based approach most developers are used to, writing an effective test template can be challenging (we know this from experience!).
The Antithesis Test Composer offers a framework for defining test templates that lets our system handle varying things like parallelism, test length, and command order. This makes it easy to get started with something very simple, then strengthen it over time.
You can also adapt existing tests or workloads for use as test templates instead of writing a test template from scratch (and many users do).
This section explains in some detail how test templates and the Test Composer work. If you’re just trying to run your first test in Antithesis, you should read this tutorial instead.
In this section: