Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Software Development Life Cycle

Manisha Wadhekar

Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software development life cycle has greatly improve the software development in this research paper studies on how Artificial Intelligence improves in every phase of software development life cycle including understanding 1. Requirement gathering, 2. Analysis, 3. Planning, 4. Development, 5. Testing, 6. Deployment, 7. Maintenance. the study reviews multiple research paper and industry practices to understand technologies like machine learning (ML), large language models (LLMS), and automation tools are changing and improving each stage of software development. AI-powered tools make work faster and more accurate, reduce mistakes, and help bring products to market but there is also have new challenges like getting people to trust them, understanding how they work and learn new skills. research show that companies that use AI tools in their software development process are changing the way they build software these methods improve code quality and make the software development process faster and more efficient. that is the reason AI is becoming an increasingly important part of modern software engineering practices.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Software Development Life Cycle, Machine Learning, Code Generation, Automated Testing, DevOps