Yes, these are essentially constants that need to be done no matter what the code looks like. Which, again, means that the only gains you might make is in reducing the number of keystrokes. To which, I dare say a lot of those keystrokes can even be done in parallel. For example, writing tests and thinking about the problem pair quite well together, so I'm not sure you even lose an insignificant amount of time on those added keystrokes in reality.

The latter points are also where you can quickly get into time trouble if you do sacrifice your code, which is how it often takes longer if you try to shortcut the code. This would be a worthwhile gamble if poorer/less maintainable code bought you time, but in my experience it doesn't even off the hop.