Proteans actively promotes buddy testing, a very effective and efficient testing practice, for superior code. Our programmers are more efficient and get things right the first time using buddy testing. This is a simple concept to ensure that each software feature goes through a quick sanity check of a QA engineer before it is checked-in. Every developer is associated with a "buddy" tester who does this sanity check (typically of the user interface, which is not covered completely through unit test cases). Essentially, we create the test scenarios before the code is written, and so quality is assured at the unit test levels itself. Risk analysis and identification occurs early greatly reducing the number of bugs in the final product, through walkthroughs and periodic close inspections and interactions between tester and developer.