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I have the following paragraph:

We often write hundreds of lines of code to express simple concepts. This code takes time to develop and maintain - and if you’re writing tests, then that time doubles.

I've pasted into both Grammerly and Word, but neither offer a correction.

I'm not confident if it should be this or that.

Lawrence Wagerfield
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The simple answer is that either is fine. Both refer to the time to develop and maintain, and the difference in how it sounds is minimal to my ear.

However, the implication here is that you are specifically referring to doubling the amount of time developing and maintaining. That means you see writing tests as a subset of developing or maintaining. If that's not the intent, and you want to refer to time more generally (such as the total project time), then you can simply use the instead.

Nathaniel is protesting
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