Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Software developers often need to transfer func-tionality, e.g., a set of commits implementing a new feature or a bug fix, from one branch of a configuration management system to another. That can be a challenging task as the existing configuration management tools lack support for matching high-level semantic functionality with low-level version histories. The developer thus has to either manually identify the exact set of semantically-related commits implementing the functionality of interest or sequentially port a specific subset of the change history, "inheriting" additional, unwanted functionality. ,  tackle this problem by providing automated support for identifying the set of semantically-related commits implementing a particular functionality, which is defined by a set of tests.  refer to our approach, CSLICER, as semantic slicing of version histories.  formally define the semantic slicing problem, provide an algorithm for identifying a set of commits that constitute a slice, and instantiate it in a specific implementation for Java projects managed in Git.  evaluate the correctness and effectiveness of our approach on a set of open-source software repositories.  show that it allows to identify subsets of change histories that maintain the functionality of interest but are substantially smaller than the original ones.
['Yi Li', 'Julia Rubin', 'Marsha Chechik']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Semantic Slicing of Software Version Histories (T)
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