Compose testing docs say:

// Test rules and transitive dependencies:
androidTestImplementation("androidx.compose.ui:ui-test-junit4:$compose_version")
// Needed for createComposeRule, but not createAndroidComposeRule:
debugImplementation("androidx.compose.ui:ui-test-manifest:$compose_version")

Should the

debugImpl

actually be

androidTestImpl

?

Same as

fragment-testing

, the

-manifest

artifact needs to manifest merge into your actual manifest to work so

debugImplementation

is correct (assuming you don't run tests against release builds also...)