What It Is
The main phases are requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations and monitoring. Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps arrange them differently. Nearly every software project passes through these phases in some form.
Key Points
- Requirements: AI generates user stories and finds gaps.
- Development: code generation, review, and refactoring.
- Testing: AI creates test suites and detects anomalies.
- Deployment and operations: smarter CI/CD, rollback prediction, and auto-remediation.
Why It Matters
The biggest gains come when AI spans the whole lifecycle, not just code completion. Each phase carries its own risks: unclear requirements cause rework, weak testing lets defects escape, and poor monitoring prolongs outages.
How ClearLeaff Applies It
Our AI × SDLC approach applies agentic AI to all six phases, combining agents with human review and strong engineering practices so speed does not cost quality or security.