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AI Evals in Practice
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AI Evals in Practice

by Caio Incau
September 2026
Intermediate
216 pages
5h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6 — Prompt Regression Testing and CI Integration

You have scorers. You have datasets. You have a runner. Now what? The answer is: regression testing. Every prompt change, every model update, every system modification gets measured against a baseline. If quality drops, you know before it reaches production.

Prompt regression testing is the practice of saving evaluation results as a “golden baseline” and comparing every subsequent evaluation against it. It is the LLM equivalent of snapshot testing in frontend development or golden-file testing in compilers. When the output changes, the test flags it. When the output degrades, the build fails.

In this chapter, we will build evalkit’s regression testing and CI integration modules. By the ...

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