5 Ways AI Transforms How Software is Developed

Gimena Aguerreberry
June 5, 2021

The role of AI has evolved over the past fifty years and still has a long way to go. However, the rapid progression of AI-enabled technology allows developers to enhance their products and speed up the development process.

Curious how artificial intelligence is changing this industry? Here are five ways that AI technology is making software development easier.

Requirement Gathering

An AI technique called natural language processing helps machines understand user requirements by automatically driving the high-level software models. Typically, you'd need human intervention during this stage. However, this technology is advanced. It can minimize human efforts to produce error-free results.

Design and Development

Software design requires in-depth knowledge and learning to plan and execute unique solutions. Software development companies utilize AI tools as intelligent programming assistants to understand the needs of the client. AI's work as website building platforms to present solutions to the customer and foster collaboration.

Automated Code Generation

Advanced AI's can help in the design process by writing code before the developer begins work. Using deep learning, the AI can write code for the program's basic structure, often in the same style as the software developer. Then, the software developers go in to tweak and perfect the program.

Rapid Prototyping

Turning business requirements into technology products used to take months (and sometimes years). AI's have shortened this process by requiring less human intervention to develop technologies.

AI-Powered Testing Services

Testing software is crucial to a program's production quality. AI's can conduct automated testing at regular intervals to ensure there are no bugs in the final product. With machine learning and AI, analyzing each test case is as simple as pressing "go."

Final Thoughts

Software design and development is a rapidly evolving field. With the advancement of AI-based technologies, you can entrust some (or most) of the process to a computer.

The question that remains is this: Can AI someday help subvert the need for humans in technology development? Only time and research can tell.

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"5 Ways AI Transforms How Software is Developed" by Gimena Aguerreberry is licensed under CC BY SA. Source code examples are licensed under MIT.

Photo by Hitesh Choudhary.

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