GenAI is Revolutionizing the Landscape of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & GenAI can play a significant role in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirement gathering to maintenance of the implemented software. AI tools and Generative AI Services (GenAI Services) help to streamline the processes at every phase of SDLC. Polyxer Systems offers Generative AI Services (GenAI Services) and implementing and using AI tools in SDLC to get the best benefits of the team with visible impact on their efficiency, accuracy, and productivity at every stage. Thanks to the rapid progress of AI Tools in SDLC and Generative AI Services (GenAI Services), the software development has become significantly efficient to automate the time-consuming processes at lower cost.

The transformation of SDLC due to AI and Machine Learning (ML) has dramatically changed the way the software is developed, tested and managed. Let’s have a closer look how the AI and Generative AI in SDLC impacts all phases.

Requirement Analysis & Assessment

  • Polyxer Systems recognizes that AI and Generative AI (GenAI) help Business Analysts gather requirements and create accurate documentation quickly.
  • AI and Generative AI (GenAI) helps our BAs to analyse raw data captured from the stakeholders and document to generate accurate requirements and user stories.
  • Using Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI tools can translate user stories and feedbacks into the technical specifications bridging the communication gaps.
  • GenAI in business analysis can help to identify specific patterns to suggest the customized features as per the client requirements.
  • Business Analysts (BAs) can experience efficiency gains of 20%-40% by using AI tools.

Requirement Analysis & Assessment

  • Polyxer Systems recognizes that AI and Generative AI (GenAI) help Business Analysts gather requirements and create accurate documentation quickly.
  • AI and Generative AI (GenAI) helps our BAs to analyse raw data captured from the stakeholders and document to generate accurate requirements and user stories.
  • Using Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI tools can translate user stories and feedbacks into the technical specifications bridging the communication gaps.
  • GenAI in business analysis can help to identify specific patterns to suggest the customized features as per the client requirements.
  • Business Analysts (BAs) can experience efficiency gains of 20%-40% by using AI tools.

System Design, Architecture

  • The AI Tools have enabled Polyxer Systems' technical architects to design the most effective and robust system architectures.
  • AI Tools have helped our architects analyse the project goals, understand the project requirements and based on that, suggest the most suitable system architecture. This saves valuable time for the development team.
  • The Machine Learning Algorithms with the help of AI tools can help to analyse the existing code and patterns to suggest the improvements for more maintainable codebase following the best code quality and practices.
  • The GenAI in architecture design helps to validate specific design choices to predict the performance, maintainability and potential issues in the code.
  • AI-driven tools can help to save the time of the developers to 10% - 30% to define more robust architecture designs.

User Interface (UI)/ User Experience (UX)

  • Designers from Polyxer utilizes the AI and Generative AI (GenAI) the most to create various images and diagrams in more quickly.
  • The Generative AI Services (GenAI) Services with combination of AI tools help to generate mock-ups and prototypes based on the requirement documents or user stories which helps to save time of the UI/UX designs up to 20%-30%.
  • AI tools and algorithms can help to recommend UI/UX elements based on user behaviour and best practices.
  • GenAI in UI/UX helps to create the design models and diagrams automatically based on the text inputs provided.

User Interface (UI)/ User Experience (UX)

  • Designers from Polyxer utilizes the AI and Generative AI (GenAI) the most to create various images and diagrams in more quickly.
  • The Generative AI Services (GenAI) Services with combination of AI tools help to generate mock-ups and prototypes based on the requirement documents or user stories which helps to save time of the UI/UX designs up to 20%-30%.
  • AI tools and algorithms can help to recommend UI/UX elements based on user behaviour and best practices.
  • GenAI in UI/UX helps to create the design models and diagrams automatically based on the text inputs provided.

Development

  • Software developers at Polyxer Systems uses the AI Tools and Generative AI services (GenAI Services) to improve the code quality and standard, unit test cases, identify bugs at initial level and better performance.
  • AI Tools act as an assistant for the software developer, suggest relevant code snippets, review the code and provide the required improvements based on the coding patterns to help in accelerating the development process.
  • The combined use of AI and Generative AI Services (GenAI Services) help our developers to automate the code generation process for repetitive and boiler plate codes with adherence to coding standards resulting in focusing more on core functionality implementations.
  • The effective use of AI tools in the code generation process can provide contextually relevant code suggestions, identify coding errors and vulnerabilities, refactor codes for improved productivity, readability, maintainability, and performance resulting in achieving 40%-50% more productivity for the development team.
  • GenAI in software development & application development helps writing a better code and software quality can be achieved by generating unit test cases based on the method signatures and documentation.

Testing

  • Polyxer Systems' QA team has maximized the benefits of AI and Generative AI tools, using them daily to identify issues early, address edge cases, and create more accurate test cases.
  • AI and Generative AI tools can help to create and execute wider range of testcases covering the edge cases, which ensures the thorough test coverage for the software features resulting in 40%-60% more efficiency.
  • The AI-enabled tools can help to analyse the code and predict the potential bugs at early stage which can help developers to fix proactively and testers can focus more on core functionalities covering more testcases.
  • The load testing can be easily performed to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • GenAI in testing can be really helpful to analyse test results to identify patterns and enhance the accuracy of test outcomes.

Testing

  • Polyxer Systems' QA team has maximized the benefits of AI and Generative AI tools, using them daily to identify issues early, address edge cases, and create more accurate test cases.
  • AI and Generative AI tools can help to create and execute wider range of testcases covering the edge cases, which ensures the thorough test coverage for the software features resulting in 40%-60% more efficiency.
  • The AI-enabled tools can help to analyse the code and predict the potential bugs at early stage which can help developers to fix proactively and testers can focus more on core functionalities covering more testcases.
  • The load testing can be easily performed to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • GenAI in testing can be really helpful to analyse test results to identify patterns and enhance the accuracy of test outcomes.

Deployment

  • AI Tools have helped Polyxer Systems’ team to streamline the deployment process by optimizing the CI/CD pipelines to predict the impact of updates and automate the entire deployment process for swift releases with minimum downtimes.
  • AI tools has helped our team to analyse the performance continuously and identify potential issues before they affect the users.
  • The deployment processes have been monitored to automatically rollback the changes if any issues occur.
  • GenAI in DevOps help to make the prediction for the optimal configurations for deployments, performance and cost.
  • The efficiency for the deployment can be increased to 20%-30% with the help of AI-driven tools and Generative AI.

Monitoring, Maintenance and Support

  • We at Polyxer Systems, use AI and Generative AI tools to troubleshoot basic issues, automate continuous monitoring of the system performance and get the insights for improvement and fixes.
  • AI and Generative AI tools can answer the questions asked by users and provide real-time support.
  • The support team can gain 15%-30% increase in productivity using AI tools to provide support to the customers.
  • Combining the GenAI with other technologies and automating the work, can add 0.5% to 3.4% annually to productivity growth.

Monitoring, Maintenance and Support

  • We at Polyxer Systems, use AI and Generative AI tools to troubleshoot basic issues, automate continuous monitoring of the system performance and get the insights for improvement and fixes.
  • AI and Generative AI tools can answer the questions asked by users and provide real-time support.
  • The support team can gain 15%-30% increase in productivity using AI tools to provide support to the customers.
  • Combining the GenAI with other technologies and automating the work, can add 0.5% to 3.4% annually to productivity growth.

Project Management

  • Polyxer Systems has seen the significant increase in the quality of Project Management after implementing the use of AI tools and Generative AI (GenAI) services.
  • Our project managers use AI tools to analyse historical data for the project, can identify potential delays and roadblocks, resource requirements and allocations for the smooth project management.
  • Generative AI and AI tools can help to provide useful insights through data which can be really helpful for risk identification and effective decision making.
  • The GenAI in Project Management implementation has increased the success of project management up to 35% till now.
  • With the help of AI, 80% of the project management processes can be automated to increase the effectiveness of the process of project planning and analysis.

Documentation

  • We at Polyxer Systems, utilize the AI tools and Generative AI services (GenAI Services) to create more insightful and accurate documentation at every stage of SDLC in half time.
  • AI and Generative AI helps to create more accurate and error free documents from code comments, commit messages, API documentation including user manuals.
  • The training documents and other requirements documents take lesser time than the manual documentation. 

Documentation

  • We at Polyxer Systems, utilize the AI tools and Generative AI services (GenAI Services) to create more insightful and accurate documentation at every stage of SDLC in half time.
  • AI and Generative AI helps to create more accurate and error free documents from code comments, commit messages, API documentation including user manuals.
  • The training documents and other requirements documents take lesser time than the manual documentation. 

Productivity Gains

Use of AI and Generative AI can be extremely helpful in every stage of the SDLC. The productivities may vary at various stages but on an average, the organizations which have implemented AI tools in SDLC stages have observed improvement of approximately to 30%-40% in the productivity.

How Can We Contribute

The evolution of the AI tools and GenAI services have changed the way we approach to the software development. We trust the power GenAI to streamline and optimize each phase of the SDLC. We use the combined approach for AI technologies with domain expertise to deliver the software solutions.

We are committed to leverage the AI driven innovation in the software development to improve efficiency and provide better solutions.

Use Cases

FAQs

1What are the overall productivity gains when implementing GenAI in the SDLC?
At Polyxer Systems, we have observed that incorporating GenAI in SDLC can boost productivity by an estimated 30-40% on average.
2How does AI contribute to faster time-to-market for new features and products?
GenAI in SDLC helps Polyxer Systems at every stage to enhance our decision making, accelerate development by automating repetitive tasks, providing smart code suggestions, and optimizing development and deployment processes, resulting in faster delivery of new features and products. GenAI in SDLC has contributed from requirement analysis phase to delivery, reduced manual efforts and speeding our overall project timelines.
3How does AI improve quality and reduce defects in software development & testing?
  • At Polyxer Systems, we leverage GenAI tools which helps writing the code quickly by learning from the design patterns and solution skeleton to suggest the real time code snippets to the developers while writing the code.
  • For existing applications including legacy ones GenAI learns the existing code, functions, patterns and help in rewriting the new code quickly.
  • GenAI also writes the unit tests, checks the code errors, ensure the optimized and beautiful code to provide improved code quality.
4In what ways does AI enhance collaboration and decision-making in the SDLC?
At Polyxer Systems, we use GenAI in SDLC to get data-driven insights, predict risks, and actionable recommendations, facilitating better collaboration and informed decision-making among our team members.
5How does AI reduce the workload for developers?
GenAI in SDLC helps our software developers to automate repetitive coding tasks, generate documentation, and identify potential issues early, allowing our developers to focus on more complex and creative tasks.