diff --git a/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Utils/TaskAgnosticAutoFit.cs b/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Utils/TaskAgnosticAutoFit.cs
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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+using Microsoft.ML.Data;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Test
+{
+    public enum TaskType
+    {
+        Classification = 1,
+        Regression
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// make AutoFit and Score calls uniform across task types
+    /// </summary>
+    internal class TaskAgnosticAutoFit
+    {
+        private TaskType taskType;
+        private MLContext context;
+
+        internal interface IUniversalProgressHandler : IProgress<RunDetail<RegressionMetrics>>, IProgress<RunDetail<MulticlassClassificationMetrics>>
+        {
+        }
+
+        internal TaskAgnosticAutoFit(TaskType taskType, MLContext context)
+        {
+            this.taskType = taskType;
+            this.context = context;
+        }
+
+        internal IEnumerable<TaskAgnosticIterationResult> AutoFit(
+            IDataView trainData,
+            string label,
+            int maxModels,
+            uint maxExperimentTimeInSeconds,
+            IDataView validationData = null,
+            IEstimator<ITransformer> preFeaturizers = null,
+            IEnumerable<(string, ColumnPurpose)> columnPurposes = null,
+            IUniversalProgressHandler progressHandler = null)
+        {
+            var columnInformation = new ColumnInformation() { LabelColumnName = label };
+
+            switch (this.taskType)
+            {
+                case TaskType.Classification:
+
+                    var mcs = new MulticlassExperimentSettings
+                    {
+                        OptimizingMetric = MulticlassClassificationMetric.MicroAccuracy,
+
+                        MaxExperimentTimeInSeconds = maxExperimentTimeInSeconds,
+                        MaxModels = maxModels
+                    };
+
+                    var classificationResult = this.context.Auto()
+                        .CreateMulticlassClassificationExperiment(mcs)
+                        .Execute(
+                            trainData,
+                            validationData,
+                            columnInformation,
+                            progressHandler: progressHandler);
+
+                    var iterationResults = classificationResult.RunDetails.Select(i => new TaskAgnosticIterationResult(i)).ToList();
+
+                    return iterationResults;
+
+                case TaskType.Regression:
+
+                    var rs = new RegressionExperimentSettings
+                    {
+                        OptimizingMetric = RegressionMetric.RSquared,
+
+                        MaxExperimentTimeInSeconds = maxExperimentTimeInSeconds,
+                        MaxModels = maxModels
+                    };
+
+                    var regressionResult = this.context.Auto()
+                        .CreateRegressionExperiment(rs)
+                        .Execute(
+                            trainData,
+                            validationData,
+                            columnInformation,
+                            progressHandler: progressHandler);
+
+                    iterationResults = regressionResult.RunDetails.Select(i => new TaskAgnosticIterationResult(i)).ToList();
+
+                    return iterationResults;
+
+                default:
+                    throw new ArgumentException($"Unknown task type {this.taskType}.", "TaskType");
+            }
+        }
+
+        internal struct ScoreResult
+        {
+            public IDataView ScoredTestData;
+            public double PrimaryMetricResult;
+            public Dictionary<string, double> Metrics;
+        }
+
+        internal ScoreResult Score(
+            IDataView testData,
+            ITransformer model,
+            string label)
+        {
+            var result = new ScoreResult();
+
+            result.ScoredTestData = model.Transform(testData);
+
+            switch (this.taskType)
+            {
+                case TaskType.Classification:
+
+                    var classificationMetrics = context.MulticlassClassification.Evaluate(result.ScoredTestData, labelColumnName: label);
+
+                    //var classificationMetrics = context.MulticlassClassification.(scoredTestData, labelColumnName: label);
+                    result.PrimaryMetricResult = classificationMetrics.MicroAccuracy; // TODO: don't hardcode metric
+                    result.Metrics = TaskAgnosticIterationResult.MetricValuesToDictionary(classificationMetrics);
+
+                    break;
+
+                case TaskType.Regression:
+
+                    var regressionMetrics = context.Regression.Evaluate(result.ScoredTestData, labelColumnName: label);
+
+                    result.PrimaryMetricResult = regressionMetrics.RSquared; // TODO: don't hardcode metric
+                    result.Metrics = TaskAgnosticIterationResult.MetricValuesToDictionary(regressionMetrics);
+
+                    break;
+
+                default:
+                    throw new ArgumentException($"Unknown task type {this.taskType}.", "TaskType");
+            }
+
+            return result;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Utils/TaskAgnosticIterationResult.cs b/test/Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Tests/Utils/TaskAgnosticIterationResult.cs
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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+using Microsoft.ML.Data;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace Microsoft.ML.AutoML.Test
+{
+    internal class TaskAgnosticIterationResult
+    {
+        internal double PrimaryMetricValue;
+
+        internal Dictionary<string, double> MetricValues = new Dictionary<string, double>();
+
+        internal readonly ITransformer Model;
+        internal readonly Exception Exception;
+        internal string TrainerName;
+        internal double RuntimeInSeconds;
+        internal IEstimator<ITransformer> Estimator;
+        internal Pipeline Pipeline;
+        internal int PipelineInferenceTimeInSeconds;
+
+        private string primaryMetricName;
+
+        private TaskAgnosticIterationResult(RunDetail baseRunDetail, object validationMetrics, string primaryMetricName)
+        {
+            this.TrainerName = baseRunDetail.TrainerName;
+            this.Estimator = baseRunDetail.Estimator;
+            this.Pipeline = baseRunDetail.Pipeline;
+
+            this.PipelineInferenceTimeInSeconds = (int)baseRunDetail.PipelineInferenceTimeInSeconds;
+            this.RuntimeInSeconds = (int)baseRunDetail.RuntimeInSeconds;
+
+            this.primaryMetricName = primaryMetricName;
+            this.PrimaryMetricValue = -1; // default value in case of exception.  TODO: won't work for minimizing metrics, use nullable?
+
+            if (validationMetrics == null)
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            this.MetricValues = MetricValuesToDictionary(validationMetrics);
+
+            this.PrimaryMetricValue = this.MetricValues[this.primaryMetricName];
+        }
+
+        public TaskAgnosticIterationResult(RunDetail<RegressionMetrics> runDetail, string primaryMetricName = "RSquared")
+            : this(runDetail, runDetail.ValidationMetrics, primaryMetricName)
+        {
+            if (runDetail.Exception == null)
+            {
+                this.Model = runDetail.Model;
+            }
+
+            this.Exception = runDetail.Exception;
+        }
+
+        public TaskAgnosticIterationResult(RunDetail<MulticlassClassificationMetrics> runDetail, string primaryMetricName = "MicroAccuracy")
+            : this(runDetail, runDetail.ValidationMetrics, primaryMetricName)
+        {
+            if (runDetail.Exception == null)
+            {
+                this.Model = runDetail.Model;
+            }
+
+            this.Exception = runDetail.Exception;
+        }
+
+        public static Dictionary<string, double> MetricValuesToDictionary<T>(T metric)
+        {
+            var supportedTypes = new[] { typeof(MulticlassClassificationMetrics), typeof(RegressionMetrics) };
+
+            if (!supportedTypes.Contains(metric.GetType()))
+            {
+                throw new ArgumentException($"Unsupported metric type {typeof(T).Name}.");
+            }
+
+            var propertiesToReport = metric.GetType().GetProperties().Where(p => p.PropertyType == typeof(double));
+
+            return propertiesToReport.ToDictionary(p => p.Name, p => (double)metric.GetType().GetProperty(p.Name).GetValue(metric));
+        }
+    }
+}
+