Abstract
The goal of this paper is to show how formal specifications can be integrated into one of the current pragmatic object-oriented software development methods. Jacobson's method OOSE (“Object-Oriented Software-Engineering”) is combined with object-oriented algebraic specifications by extending object and interaction diagrams with formal annotations. The specifications are based on Meseguer's Rewriting Logic and are written in an extension of the language Maude by process expressions. As a result any such diagram can be associated with a formal specification, proof obligations ensuring invariant properties can be automatically generated, and the refinement relations between documents on different abstraction levels can be formally stated and proved. Finally, we provide a schematic translation of the specification to Java and thus an automatic generation of an object-oriented implementation.
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