Re: [Boost-users] C++ and quality of software

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] C++ and quality of software
From: Bo Jensen (jensen.bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-25 16:18:14

Google has some effort in that direction :

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cpplint/cpplint.py

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Peter Foelsche <foelsche_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I was thinking. There should be some C++ software quality assurance
> institution. They would give a stamp of approval to software written in C++.
> Criteria would be:
>  a.. no usage fixed-sized buffers
>  b.. no usage of functions from the c library, which do not check for
> correct type, like *printf(), *scanf().
>  c.. no dangling resources, no resource leaks in any case
>  d.. usage of C++ Exception Handling for reporting errors (all fallible
> OS-calls are wrapped into C++, this can be checked by denying read/write
> permissions on some object, the software is trying to read/write to)
>  e.. clean design -- e.g. no protocols (no protocols is my way of saying,
> that all methods of classes can be used and make sense to be used, as soon
> as this object exists)
> What do you think?
> I also published this on my blog:
> http://foelsche.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BFA22F3AB9E833!921.entry
>
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