Validation Led Development of Object-Oriented Software Using a Model Verifier

Object-oriented methodologies focus on the design of object classes as the building blocks of systems. The class interface provides a way to encapsulate focus to a single object/class at a time. However, general system-wide issues are important and need attention in the design endeavour also. The paper reports on our efforts to use a model verifier to enact interactions of multiple objects and classes to perform a system-wide analysis.