Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper  study the evolution of seven sizable open source programs over a long period of time.  first measure how software complexity changes as programs evolve, and identify complexity-reducing releases.  then study the changes introduced in these releases and extract evolution patterns ( call them complexity-reducing steps) that lead to reduced program complexity. Finally,  categorize these steps and discuss their effectiveness.  believe that bringing these complexity-reducing measures to light, and encouraging developers to adopt them, has the potential to improve the state of practice in software maintenance.
['Steve D. Suh', 'Iulian Neamtiu']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Studying Software Evolution for Taming Software Complexity
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