diff --git a/images/imagetest/content.go b/images/imagetest/content.go
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+/*
+   Copyright The containerd Authors.
+
+   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package imagetest
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"math/rand"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/containerd/containerd/content"
+	"github.com/containerd/containerd/content/local"
+	"github.com/containerd/containerd/images"
+	"github.com/opencontainers/go-digest"
+	ocispec "github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1"
+)
+
+// Content represents a piece of image content in the content store along with
+// its relevant children and size.
+type Content struct {
+	Descriptor ocispec.Descriptor
+	Labels     map[string]string
+	Size       Size
+	Children   []Content
+}
+
+// ContentStore is a temporary content store which provides simple
+// helper functions for quickly altering content in the store.
+// Directly modifying the content store without using the helper functions
+// may result in out of sync test content values, be careful of this
+// when writing tests.
+type ContentStore struct {
+	content.Store
+
+	ctx context.Context
+	t   *testing.T
+}
+
+// NewContentStore creates a new content store in the testing's temporary directory
+func NewContentStore(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T) ContentStore {
+	cs, err := local.NewLabeledStore(t.TempDir(), newMemoryLabelStore())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return ContentStore{
+		Store: cs,
+		ctx:   ctx,
+		t:     t,
+	}
+}
+
+// Index creates an index with the provided manifests and stores it
+// in the content store.
+func (tc ContentStore) Index(manifests ...Content) Content {
+	var index ocispec.Index
+	for _, m := range manifests {
+		index.Manifests = append(index.Manifests, m.Descriptor)
+	}
+
+	idx := tc.JSONObject(ocispec.MediaTypeImageIndex, index)
+	idx.Children = manifests
+	return idx
+
+}
+
+// Manifest creates a manifest with the given config and layers then
+// stores it in the content store.
+func (tc ContentStore) Manifest(config Content, layers ...Content) Content {
+	var manifest ocispec.Manifest
+	manifest.Config = config.Descriptor
+	for _, l := range layers {
+		manifest.Layers = append(manifest.Layers, l.Descriptor)
+	}
+	m := tc.JSONObject(ocispec.MediaTypeImageManifest, manifest)
+	m.Children = append(m.Children, config)
+	m.Children = append(m.Children, layers...)
+	return m
+}
+
+// Blob creates a generic blob with the given data and media type
+// and stores the data in the content store.
+func (tc ContentStore) Blob(mediaType string, data []byte) Content {
+	tc.t.Helper()
+
+	descriptor := ocispec.Descriptor{
+		MediaType: mediaType,
+		Digest:    digest.SHA256.FromBytes(data),
+		Size:      int64(len(data)),
+	}
+
+	ref := string(descriptor.Digest) // TODO: Add random component?
+	if err := content.WriteBlob(tc.ctx, tc.Store, ref, bytes.NewReader(data), descriptor); err != nil {
+		tc.t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return Content{
+		Descriptor: descriptor,
+		Size: Size{
+			Manifest: descriptor.Size,
+			Content:  descriptor.Size,
+		},
+	}
+
+}
+
+// RandomBlob creates a blob object in the content store with random data.
+func (tc ContentStore) RandomBlob(mediaType string, n int) Content {
+	tc.t.Helper()
+
+	data := make([]byte, int64(n))
+	rand.New(rand.NewSource(int64(n))).Read(data)
+
+	return tc.Blob(mediaType, data)
+}
+
+// JSONObject creates an object in the content store by first marshaling
+// to JSON and then storing the data.
+func (tc ContentStore) JSONObject(mediaType string, i interface{}) Content {
+	tc.t.Helper()
+
+	data, err := json.Marshal(i)
+	if err != nil {
+		tc.t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return tc.Blob(mediaType, data)
+}
+
+// Walk walks all the children of the provided content and calls the provided
+// function with the associated content store.
+// Walk can be used to update an object and reflect that change in the content
+// store.
+func (tc ContentStore) Walk(c Content, fn func(context.Context, *Content, content.Store) error) Content {
+	tc.t.Helper()
+
+	if err := fn(tc.ctx, &c, tc.Store); err != nil {
+		tc.t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if len(c.Children) > 0 {
+		children := make([]Content, len(c.Children))
+		for i, child := range c.Children {
+			children[i] = tc.Walk(child, fn)
+		}
+		c.Children = children
+	}
+
+	return c
+}
+
+// AddPlatform alters the content desciptor by setting the platform
+func AddPlatform(c Content, p ocispec.Platform) Content {
+	c.Descriptor.Platform = &p
+	return c
+}
+
+// LimitChildren limits the amount of children in the content.
+// This function is non-recursive and uses the natural ordering.
+func LimitChildren(c Content, limit int) Content {
+	if images.IsIndexType(c.Descriptor.MediaType) {
+		if len(c.Children) > limit {
+			c.Children = c.Children[0:limit]
+		}
+	}
+	return c
+}
+
+// ContentCreator is a simple interface for generating content for tests
+type ContentCreator func(ContentStore) Content
+
+// SimpleManifest generates a simple manifest with small config and random layer
+// The layer produced is not a valid compressed tar, do not unpack it.
+func SimpleManifest(layerSize int) ContentCreator {
+	return func(tc ContentStore) Content {
+		config := ocispec.ImageConfig{
+			Env: []string{"random"}, // TODO: Make random string
+		}
+		return tc.Manifest(
+			tc.JSONObject(ocispec.MediaTypeImageConfig, config),
+			tc.RandomBlob(ocispec.MediaTypeImageLayerGzip, layerSize))
+	}
+}
+
+// SimpleIndex generates a simple index with the number of simple
+// manifests specified.
+func SimpleIndex(manifests, layerSize int) ContentCreator {
+	manifestFn := SimpleManifest(layerSize)
+	return func(tc ContentStore) Content {
+		var m []Content
+		for i := 0; i < manifests; i++ {
+			m = append(m, manifestFn(tc))
+		}
+		return tc.Index(m...)
+	}
+}
+
+// StripLayers deletes all layer content from the content store
+// and updates the content size to 0.
+func StripLayers(cc ContentCreator) ContentCreator {
+	return func(tc ContentStore) Content {
+		return tc.Walk(cc(tc), func(ctx context.Context, c *Content, store content.Store) error {
+			if images.IsLayerType(c.Descriptor.MediaType) {
+				if err := store.Delete(tc.ctx, c.Descriptor.Digest); err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				c.Size.Content = 0
+			}
+			return nil
+		})
+
+	}
+}
+
+type memoryLabelStore struct {
+	l      sync.Mutex
+	labels map[digest.Digest]map[string]string
+}
+
+// newMemoryLabelStore creates an inmemory label store for testing
+func newMemoryLabelStore() local.LabelStore {
+	return &memoryLabelStore{
+		labels: map[digest.Digest]map[string]string{},
+	}
+}
+
+func (mls *memoryLabelStore) Get(d digest.Digest) (map[string]string, error) {
+	mls.l.Lock()
+	labels := mls.labels[d]
+	mls.l.Unlock()
+
+	return labels, nil
+}
+
+func (mls *memoryLabelStore) Set(d digest.Digest, labels map[string]string) error {
+	mls.l.Lock()
+	mls.labels[d] = labels
+	mls.l.Unlock()
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (mls *memoryLabelStore) Update(d digest.Digest, update map[string]string) (map[string]string, error) {
+	mls.l.Lock()
+	labels, ok := mls.labels[d]
+	if !ok {
+		labels = map[string]string{}
+	}
+	for k, v := range update {
+		if v == "" {
+			delete(labels, k)
+		} else {
+			labels[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+	mls.labels[d] = labels
+	mls.l.Unlock()
+
+	return labels, nil
+}
diff --git a/images/imagetest/size.go b/images/imagetest/size.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c8ea9ca1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/imagetest/size.go
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+/*
+   Copyright The containerd Authors.
+
+   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package imagetest
+
+// Size represents the size of an object from different methods of counting, in bytes
+type Size struct {
+	// Manifest is the total Manifest reported size of current object and children
+	Manifest int64
+
+	// Content is the total of store Content of current object and children
+	Content int64
+
+	// Unpacked is the total size of Unpacked data for the given snapshotter
+	// The key is the snapshotter name
+	// The value is the usage reported by the snapshotter for the image
+	Unpacked map[string]int64
+
+	// Uncompressed is the total Uncompressed tar stream data (used for size estimate)
+	Uncompressed int64
+}
+
+// ContentSizeCalculator calculates a size property for the test content
+type ContentSizeCalculator func(Content) int64
+
+// SizeOfManifest recursively calculates the manifest reported size,
+// not accounting for duplicate entries.
+func SizeOfManifest(t Content) int64 {
+	accumulated := t.Size.Manifest
+	for _, child := range t.Children {
+		accumulated = accumulated + SizeOfManifest(child)
+	}
+	return accumulated
+}
+
+// SizeOfContent recursively calculates the size of all stored content
+// The calculation is a simple accumulation based on the structure,
+// duplicate blobs are not accounted for.
+func SizeOfContent(t Content) int64 {
+	accumulated := t.Size.Content
+	for _, child := range t.Children {
+		accumulated = accumulated + SizeOfContent(child)
+	}
+	return accumulated
+}