Automated testing is just the question of your own style. What do you like to do more: debugging the problems or try to write a lot of testing code upfront and

Automated testing is just the question of your own style. What do you like to do more: debugging the problems or try to write a lot of testing code upfront and before the actual code. Long hours are about work and pay. Never let the sense of guilt into it. It is not related to the 'quality'. You've got certain value of throughput (how much stuff useful for the client you can make per hour), and that's it, that's your value per hour. You don't increase it by working for more hours. Divide the pay by your de-facto hours (if you want to take more of them), see if it's a good deal for you.