A crash course on making ML software more reliable, including best practices on testing and other aspects of defensive programming.

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Ensuring the reliability and robustness of machine learning models is essential to building successful ML-powered applications.

This course begins with a thorough introduction to software testing essentials, particularly use cases within the machine learning context. You’ll learn about topics related to software testing, including unit and integration testing and more advanced testing techniques. Next, you’ll learn the best practices in software testing and dive into ML-specific testing techniques, such as behavioral and smoke tests. Lastly, you’ll cover the aspects of ML software reliability outside of testing, including runtime checks and type hinting.

By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure the reliability and robustness of your machine learning systems. You’ll be able to apply software engineering principles to your ML processes, create and execute efficient testing approaches, and utilize monitoring tools to identify and resolve problems in your ML systems.

Reliable Machine Learning

## Overview

**Fixtures** are fixed environment items (usually function inputs and outputs) used in tests. Without fixtures, we do not separate test-case preparation logic from the test itself. Moreover, we're probably creating almost the same test cases for different tests.

Let’s look at the code below where we add some images to our repository and use the `crop_image` function to crop an image.



# Overview

**Fixtures** are fixed environment items (usually function inputs and outputs) used in tests. Without fixtures, we do not separate test-case preparation logic from the test itself. Moreover, we're probably creating almost the same test cases for different tests.

Let’s look at the code below where we add some images to our repository and use the `crop_image` function to crop an image.



Learn about fixtures and how to use them in your tests.

Introduction to Reliable ML

Software Testing

Best and Worst Practices

ML-Specific Tests

ML Software Reliability outside of Tests

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Fixtures in pytest

Overview