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PaperHigh credibilityIEEE Big Data 2017 · Eric Breck, Shanqing Cai, Eric Nielsen, Michael Salib, D. Sculley · December 11, 2017
The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction
Our summary
Twenty-eight concrete tests and monitoring needs for production ML, drawn from Google's experience — a rubric covering the deterministic scaffold (data, infra, model plumbing) that surrounds any learned component.
Why it matters
The canonical case that the non-model code around an ML system deserves ordinary, exact unit tests — the basis for unit-testing the deterministic scaffold.
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Published June 26, 2026
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Qlarify Labs. (2026). The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction. Retrieved from https://labs.qlarify.fi/references/ml-test-score-2017