What The 80’s

Taught Me

About Software

TestingBy Mike Lyles

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80’s Slang6

1980• Rubik’s Cube

• Post-It Notes

• Miracle on Ice

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• MTV born 8/1/81

• Pac-Man game released

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• Compact Discs

• Time's Man of Year

• All 9 planets aligned 3/10

198210

• Motorola mobile

• Sony camcorder

• Swatch watches

• Apple introduces "Lisa"

• Laptop by Tandy

• Microsoft Word

• McDonalds McNuggets

• The A-Team

• Fear of nuclear war

• "Just Say No“ - Nancy Reagan

• “Just Say Know” – Mike Lyles

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• PG-13 rating established

• Where's the Beef (Wendy's)

• The Terminator

198412

• New Coke 3/23

• We Are the World

• Macgyver

198513

• Space Shuttle 1/28

• Haley’s Comet

• Chernobyl 4/26

1986Greg JarvisSharon Christa McAuliffeRonald McNairEllison OnizukaJudith ResnikFrancis R. ScobeeMichael J. Smith

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• Black Monday - 10/19

• Unsolved Mysteries (with Robert Stack)

198715

• Nike "Just Do It"

• Big

198816

• Ended of Cold War - 11/9/89

• WWW (Tim Berners Lee)

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

198917

• Another Brick in the Wall

• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

• We Didn't Start the Fire

Songs of the 80’sLife of a Tester

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• Beat It

• Don't Stand So Close To Me

• Authority Song

• We're Not Gonna Take It

Songs of the 80’sConfrontations

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• I've Had The Time of My Life

• Don't Stop Believing

• Walk This Way

Songs of the 80’sPartnership /

Motivation

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“Wax on, wax off” – Karate Kid

Quotes21

“Forever is a long time, and time has a way of changing things”

– Fox & Hound

Quotes22

Quotes

“Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place”

– The Breakfast Club

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“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t NEED roads” – Back to the Future

Quotes24

Reagan Quotes“Trust…but verify”

“Don’t be afraid to see what you see”

“Government's 1st duty is to protect the people, not run their lives”

“Peace is not the absence of conflict -it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means”

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Closing Thoughts• Our generation is our culture

• 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, or 2000’s – relatively the same

• Testing, like music, is device agnostic. Better tools can help – but critical thinking and testing is the core

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We Are The

ChampionsI've paid my dues Time after time.

I've done my sentence But committed no crime.And bad mistakes ‒ I've made a few.

I've had my share of sand kicked in my faceBut I've come through.

(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)We are the champions, my friends,

And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.We are the champions.We are the champions.

No time for losers'Cause we are the champions of the world.

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Mike Lyles

Sr. QA Manager

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