Seer: a graphical retrieval system for reusable Ada software modules

The authors describe Seer, a student´s engineering environment for reusable software. It is also a retrieval and evaluation system that is both flexible and unobtrusive, allowing the software engineer to easily explore complex module information webs, comparing them with other webs in a module classification scheme. A prototype of Seer has been constructed around the classification scheme of an existing commercial module library and seeded with a number of information webs associated with modules of that library. The functionality of this prototype is provided primarily by SeeGraph, a network database with flexible graphical interface