Object-oriented modeling and automated analysis of a telemedicine application

As the impact of and demand for software increases, there is greater need for rigorous software development techniques that can be used by a typical software engineer. We have added formal syntax and semantics definitions to an existing object-oriented modeling notation in order to integrate informal and formal approaches to software development. This formalization enables developers to construct object oriented models of requirements and designs and then automatically generate formal specifications for the diagrams. These formal specifications enable the diagrams to be analyzed by a number of existing automated reasoning utilities, including behavior simulators, model checkers and rewriting systems.