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by crazypython 2383 days ago
Balance. A good programmer can balance between CapEx, OpEx, and business objective delivery depending on the business amount of testing.

> I usually take 3-4 tries with some significant amount of testing to get my code to a working state.

That's pretty normal. Try to use TDD, that is, try to test your code ASAP.