Even if there were papers on it, I think there are too many confounding factors to elicit anything useful from them. Personally though, unit testing and test fi

Even if there were papers on it, I think there are too many confounding factors to elicit anything useful from them. Personally though, unit testing and test first development help me focus on a small problem and solving that, while ignoring the rest of the system. It's really easy to get pulled into the big picture. I also found my code to be more modular and decoupled.