diff --git a/pytorch_translate/test/test_export_models.py b/pytorch_translate/test/test_export_models.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import unittest
+
+import torch
+from fairseq.modules import multihead_attention
+
+
+class TestExportModels(unittest.TestCase):
+    @unittest.skip("TDD: placeholder for development")
+    def test_export_multihead_attention(self):
+        module = multihead_attention.MultiheadAttention(embed_dim=8, num_heads=2)
+        torch.jit.script(module)