quality_assurance · finance · workflow
WEX builds an agentic SDLC with Augment Code, compressing a seven-to-nine-month refactor into five days
WEX's SDLC relied on manual context-gathering that required scheduling breakout sessions with lead architects, leaving partner requests and secondary backlog items chronically deprioritized as engineers focused on core product work across very large, complex codebases.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Codebase query trigger
An engineer or product manager runs a prompt against the codebase to understand a specific backend process.
Tools used
AugmentVS Code · partnerSnyk · partner
Outcome
WEX compressed a seven-to-nine-month webforms refactor into five days, resolves complex partner requests in a single afternoon, and generates bug fixes with full test coverage in minutes — with product managers now able to navigate sophisticated system flows independently.
Results
Time savedseven-to-nine-month
Volumemulti-month refactor in less than a week
Running sinceearly 2024
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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