Specifying and analysing distributed object-oriented systems

The ability to check whether the modeled system satisfies certain properties is a very important aspect in the software development process. Many object-oriented methods do not pay enough attention to behavioral descriptions. Indeed, they mostly do not provide formally founded descriptions that can be checked an atomatically. This paper presents an integrated approach, consisting of formally founded description techniques, an expressive temporal logic for specifying properties, and a model checking mechanism for automatically checking whether some executions of the specified system satisfy the required properties.