diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/its/SimpleProxyBase.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/its/SimpleProxyBase.java
index 5435135..7289586 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/its/SimpleProxyBase.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/its/SimpleProxyBase.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
@@ -52,11 +53,13 @@
 
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.Accumulo;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.AccumuloClient;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.admin.compaction.CompressionConfigurer;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.admin.compaction.TooManyDeletesSelector;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.summary.summarizers.DeletesSummarizer;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.clientImpl.Namespace;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.conf.DefaultConfiguration;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.conf.Property;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.TableId;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Value;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.file.FileOperations;
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.file.FileSKVWriter;
@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@
 import org.apache.accumulo.proxy.thrift.UnknownScanner;
 import org.apache.accumulo.proxy.thrift.UnknownWriter;
 import org.apache.accumulo.proxy.thrift.WriterOptions;
+import org.apache.accumulo.server.ServerContext;
 import org.apache.accumulo.server.util.PortUtils;
 import org.apache.accumulo.test.constraints.MaxMutationSize;
 import org.apache.accumulo.test.constraints.NumericValueConstraint;
@@ -2315,6 +2319,78 @@ public void testCompactionSelector() throws Exception {
     assertEquals(1, countFiles(tableNames[1]), messagePrefix + tableNames[2]);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the collective size of all the files in a table.
+   */
+  private long getFileSizes(ServerContext ctx, String tableName) {
+    TableId tableId = TableId.of(ctx.tableOperations().tableIdMap().get(tableName));
+    try (var tabletsMetadata = ctx.getAmple().readTablets().forTable(tableId).build();) {
+      return tabletsMetadata.stream().flatMap(tm -> tm.getFiles().stream()).mapToLong(stf -> {
+        try {
+          return FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration()).getFileStatus(stf.getPath()).getLen();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+          throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+      }).sum();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Testing the functionality for the CompactionConfigurer by testing an implementation of it. The
+   * implementation being tested is the CompressionConfigurer.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testCompactionConfigurer() throws Exception {
+    // Delete the table to start fresh
+    client.deleteTable(sharedSecret, tableName);
+    // Create two tables
+    final String[] tableNames = getUniqueNameArray(2);
+    for (String tableName : tableNames) {
+      client.createTable(sharedSecret, tableName, true, TimeType.MILLIS);
+      client.setTableProperty(sharedSecret, tableName, "table.file.compress.type", "none");
+    }
+
+    // Create data to add to the tables
+    Map<ByteBuffer,List<ColumnUpdate>> mutation = new HashMap<>();
+    byte[] data = new byte[100000];
+    Arrays.fill(data, (byte) 65);
+    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+      String row = String.format("%09d", i);
+      ColumnUpdate columnUpdate = new ColumnUpdate(s2bb("big"), s2bb("files"));
+      columnUpdate.setDeleteCell(false);
+      columnUpdate.setValue(data);
+      mutation.put(s2bb(row), List.of(columnUpdate));
+    }
+    for (String tableName : tableNames) {
+      client.updateAndFlush(sharedSecret, tableName, mutation);
+      client.flushTable(sharedSecret, tableName, null, null, true);
+    }
+
+    // Checking the sizes of the files before compaction
+    for (String tableName : tableNames) {
+      long sizes = getFileSizes(getCluster().getServerContext(), tableName);
+      assertTrue(sizes > data.length * 10.0 && sizes < data.length * 11.0);
+    }
+
+    // Create a PluginConfig for the CompressionConfigurer
+    PluginConfig configurerCompact = new PluginConfig(CompressionConfigurer.class.getName(),
+        Map.of(CompressionConfigurer.LARGE_FILE_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD, data.length + "",
+            CompressionConfigurer.LARGE_FILE_COMPRESSION_TYPE, "gz"));
+
+    // Compacting the tables one with the Configurer, one without
+    client.compactTable(sharedSecret, tableNames[0], null, null, null, true, true, null,
+        configurerCompact);
+    client.compactTable(sharedSecret, tableNames[1], null, null, null, true, true, null, null);
+
+    // Checking to see that the data sizes are the appropriate size. Based on the data, it will be
+    // significantly smaller with compression
+    long sizes1 = getFileSizes(getCluster().getServerContext(), tableNames[0]);
+    long sizes2 = getFileSizes(getCluster().getServerContext(), tableNames[1]);
+    assertTrue(sizes1 < data.length);
+    assertTrue(sizes1 < sizes2, "Size1 is " + sizes1 + ", size2 is " + sizes2);
+    assertTrue(sizes2 > data.length * 10.0 && sizes2 < data.length * 11.0);
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void namespaceOperations() throws Exception {
     // default namespace and accumulo namespace