This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects Components and Systems FORTE 2022 held in Lucca Italy in June 2022 as part of the 17th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2022.The 12 regular papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They cover topics such as software quality reliability availability and safety security privacy and trust in distributed andor communicating systems serviceoriented ubiquitous and cloud computing systems componentand modelbased design object technology modularity and software adaptation selfstabilisation and selfhealingorganising and verification validation formal analysis and testing of the above.