Using Annotated C++

A++ (‘‘Annotated C++’’) is both a formalism and a proposed CASE tool for annotating C++ code with object-oriented specifications, assertions, and related semantic information. Annotations provide programmers with a useful means for approaching class design, exceptions, correctness, standardization, software reusability and related issues in software engineering with C++. This paper shows how A++ provides arbitrarily fine granularity to the C++ type system, how it automates and streamlines exception testing, how it can aid in standardization of software components, and how it can safely remove redundant exception tests