In this paper we develop an approach to model-checking for timed automata via reachability testing. As our specification formalism, we consider a dense-time logic with clocks. This logic may be used to express safety and bounded liveness properties of real-time systems. We show how to automatically synthesize, for every logical formula ', a socalled test automaton T' in such a way that checking whether a system S satisfies the property ' can be reduced to a reachability question over the system obtained by making T' interact with S.