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The speakers cover why agents are harder to test than regular software due to their non-deterministic, stateful, and long-horizon nature. They introduce Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's approach to agent observability and evaluation, including eval rubrics for multi-dimensional agent assessment, golden datasets for regression testing, and the Foundry Agent Optimizer for continuous improvement. The session also touches on single-turn and multi-turn conversation evaluation, trace replace functionality, and the concept of evaluation-driven development as the new TDD for AI agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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