If you commute in those new trains, you may have noticed their new and shiny system which shows you in which village you are and when you will arrive in the next station.

However, since the clock change 18 days ago, it just doesnt work anymore: Sometimes it displays three different times on the same screen, the ‘next stop’ field is wrong or the driver just turned it off and announce the stations by his own.

We all create software and know how hard it is to keep those little things in mind which could make our software fail. I was not very surprised when I saw it the first time, but that was almost one and a half years ago!

I wonder what those guys at sbb are doing (maybe they outsourced it to Swisscom IT Services (they grow by buying other companies and fail when they have to deliver on time because it’s all mixed up)) There was a bug a long time ago, its easy reproduceable and it’s around until today.

Still, it’s a wonderful example for the type of dev who just press ‘run’ in his editor to see if his program is okay and then hope he did enough testing.