# Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests

DevFeed: [Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/four-steps-to-creating-effective-game-day-tests-1398.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/four-steps-creating-effective-game-day-tests>)

Author: Shopify Engineering

Published: 2019-11-12T16:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [ddos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddos.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [dns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dns.md>), [ecommerce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecommerce.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [verification](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verification.md>), [verify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verify.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify explains how Game Day tests deliberately introduce production failure scenarios to evaluate system resilience and team response. The article presents practices for identifying possible failures, prioritizing scenarios, and preparing to restore services during unexpected incidents.

## Source excerpt

Four steps to creating effective Game Day tests. Game Day testing is deliberately triggering failure modes within production systems, and analyzing whether the systems handle these problems in the ways we expect.