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by Erwin 4837 days ago
An often touted "benefit" of TDD is that "addictive" feeling when you write tests and see them pass. "you feel like you have done a lot because you have a lot of code"; "you feel a great deal of accomplishment". Quite a few pages talk about it when you search for "tdd addictive".

The canonical example is the master of XP solving Sudoku in the TDD way: http://xprogramming.com/articles/oksudoku/ (part 1 out of 5) -vs- Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html