niSiDe: Interactive Tool for Understanding Distributed Software

Understanding object-oriented distributed applications is currently an important concern as this type of systems is widely represented in the industry. While analyzing such systems can be done using the available tools built for understanding general, object-oriented, systems, they may fail to capture the most important aspect of this type of systems: their distribution-related functionality. This paper presents niSiDe, the tool developed to support our approach in understanding distributed software, which automates all involved tasks while allowing for user interaction, and provides the visualizations necessary to capture the essential aspects of the system´s distributed nature.