Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for eliminating overlong source code segments (e.g., methods) by evaluating input source code segments for a plurality of predetermined code metric values to identify a first long code segment based on predetermined code metric values for output and storage in a codefix issue queue, applying multiple extraction algorithms to the first long code segment to generate a second code segment that is semantically equivalent to and shorter than the first long code segment; and then generating a fixed codegraph representation of the software program using the second code segment to replace the first long code segment.