Domain Specific Code Repository using Elasticsearch

Various software development companies have their own code repository for future reference. This code repository consist of previous projects and code worked on, by company employees. Taking up a new project or working on a module of some current project, developers come across coding challenges which may have been faced by some other employees previously in the same project or some other project. These employees may not be the part of current project or may have already left the company. But the probability that they found out a solution for the problem is absolute. The solution to this problem exists in the code repository in form of chunks of code in files. However searching for a specific peace of code in the repository may be a tedious job. And sometimes may even take more time than writing the code itself, from scratch. This paper proposes the use of elastic search for indexing the code repository to enormously accelerate the search proses.