HipiKat

Software development projects produce a large number of artifacts, including source code, documentation, bug reports, e-mail, newsgroup articles, and version information. The information in these artifacts can be helpful to a software developer trying to perform a task, such as adding a new feature, to a system. Unfortunately, it is often difficult for a software developer to locate the right information amongst the huge amount of data stored and thats where HipiKat comes in.

Hipikat is a tool intended to solve this problem. It recommends relevant software development artifacts based on the context in which a developer requests help from Hipikat.

Its purpose is to point out work already done in the project that is similar to the one the developer is currently working on.

It can also be used to search archives of newsgroups and other information about the project.