diff --git a/alib2cli/src/builtin/Dot.cpp b/alib2cli/src/builtin/Dot.cpp
index 9876c5b8193f3da7c80c44781ec33759980c3080..6ac6d7eec58283d5c6f605f7e1ee71ee9f90a908 100644
--- a/alib2cli/src/builtin/Dot.cpp
+++ b/alib2cli/src/builtin/Dot.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ namespace builtin {
 std::vector < std::string> Dot::m_DotAllowedTypes { "dot", "xdot", "ps", "pdf", "svg", "svgz", "fig", "png", "gif", "jpg", "jpeg", "json", "imap", "cmapx" };
 
 void Dot::dot ( const std::string & data ) {
-	( void ) std::system( ( "dot -Tx11 <<DOTDATA\n" + data + "\nDOTDATA" ).c_str ( ) );
+	int res = std::system( ( "dot -Tx11 <<DOTDATA\n" + data + "\nDOTDATA" ).c_str ( ) );
+
+	if ( res )
+		throw exception::CommonException ( "The dot command exited unsuccessfuly. Return value was " + ext::to_string ( res ) + "." );
 }
 
 void Dot::dot ( const std::string & data, const std::string & outputType, const std::string & outputFile ) {
@@ -28,7 +31,10 @@ void Dot::dot ( const std::string & data, const std::string & outputType, const
 	if ( std::find ( m_DotAllowedTypes.begin( ), m_DotAllowedTypes.end ( ), outputType ) == m_DotAllowedTypes.end ( ) )
 		throw exception::CommonException ( "Dot outputType is invalid." );
 
-	( void ) std::system ( ( "dot -T" + outputTypeLower + " -o " + outputFile + "<<DOTDATA\n" + data + "\nDOTDATA" ).c_str ( ) );
+	int res = std::system ( ( "dot -T" + outputTypeLower + " -o " + outputFile + "<<DOTDATA\n" + data + "\nDOTDATA" ).c_str ( ) );
+
+	if ( res )
+		throw exception::CommonException ( "The dot command exited unsuccessfuly. Return value was " + ext::to_string ( res ) + "." );
 }
 
 auto DotTx11 = registration::AbstractRegister < Dot, void, const std::string & > ( Dot::dot, abstraction::AlgorithmCategories::AlgorithmCategory::DEFAULT, "dot_data" );