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Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar, by David Millar

The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport. By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise', and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.

  • Sales Rank: #1557655 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-06-28
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: 7.80" h x .87" w x 5.08" l, .70 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 368 pages

Review
Millar is never less than candid in a memoir that is part confessional, part catharsis. THE SCOTSMAN His description of that agonising 2010 mountain stage, during which he scoured the depths of his soul while falling helplessly behind the rest of the field, deserves to stand among the great first-person accounts of sporting experience. -- Richard Williams THE GUARDIAN His career almost destroyed by a doping scandal in 2004, the cycling champion faces his demons in this eloquent and revelatory memoir. Millar's gutsy slog to restore his reputation is inspirational. THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SEVEN Magazine This is the superbly narrated story of one man's evolution from talented ingenue to disillusioned doper and back again... one of the very best snapshots of professional cycling in the noughties. OUTDOOR FITNESS Highly articulate, Millar has written a courageously combative book that both exposes the conditions that create drug cheating and explains how his sport has to confront those conditions if it is to break from this most murky of pasts. -- Mark Perryman PHILOSOPHY FOOTBALL The thoughtful British doper-turned-campaigner delivers an eloquent, highly rated memoir about life in troubled peloton. -- Simon Usborne THE INDEPENDENT

About the Author
David Millar was born in Malta in 1977. He is a British road racing cyclist and the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of four to have worn the yellow jersey. He is now a part-owner of the Garmin-Chipotle team and a key figure of the World Anti-doping Agency's athletes committee. Follow David Millar on Twitter at https://twitter.com/millarmind.

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Life is about making decisions, and my relationship with David Millar has informed some of the toughest and most critical decisions in my career. Looking back, his experience has also been pivotal in fueling my passionate belief in clean sport.

I first crossed paths with David in 2002 at the World Road Championships in Belgium. I was working as performance director to Team GB, and he was riding for the British team. It was clear from the outset that he was different from any other bike rider I’d met before. Hugely talented, ambitious, and extroverted, Dave was a thoroughbred.

He was intelligent and strong-willed, yet also very vulnerable. It is rare for me to mix personal with professional, but we got on immediately, and he is one of the few riders that I have also become close friends with.

Dave was already clearly frustrated with the “old school” thinking of the European scene. We talked about working together, developing new ways of thinking about racing and equipment, and taking those ideas into Europe. I knew that with the right environment he could go on to great things.

Yet in hindsight, I can look back and see that there were nagging worries. Dave was something of a wild child, living life to the full, lacking the kind of mentoring that he needed at the time. I knew he had doubts about the team that he was on, that he was under a lot of pressure, that some aspects of his lifestyle were extreme, but I didn’t know how far that extreme lifestyle had gone, or that there was another side to his life that he couldn’t share.

I had just come back to Biarritz with him, after watching him race in the buildup to the Athens Olympics, when it all came tumbling down. I looked on in horror and disbelief as the French police arrested him, just as we settled down to dinner in one of his favorite restaurants in Biarritz. It was a shocking moment, something I never want to experience again. Only then did I begin to understand his secret life and how deeply ashamed he was of betraying his ideals and his family and friends.

Dave’s arrest put me in a difficult situation. I was advised, in no uncertain terms, to leave as quickly as possible, to ensure that British Cycling was not tarnished by scandal. Ultimately though, I had nothing to hide and had done nothing wrong. I was warned that it could be damaging to my reputation, but I felt that I had a duty of care to Dave. I decided that the right thing to do was to stay.

He was in custody for seventy-two hours. The French police were brutal and very aggressive. I was interrogated for almost five hours, but they finally completely acknowledged that I had no involvement at all. I waited until Dave was released, exiting through the back door of the police station to avoid the media. Then I told him to tell me everything.

Over the next few days, as we talked openly about what he had done and what he had been through, the murky world of doping—something I had never encountered—became real. It opened my eyes as I learned how the culture of doping had poisoned his life. It was a steep learning curve for me, but his experience has given me valuable insight and helped me to further develop the strong ethical values that are now the foundation for Team GB and Team SKY. I have seen firsthand how doping can almost wreck an athlete’s life—I am determined it will not happen to any athlete in my charge.

Dave and I came close to working together a couple of years ago, when Team SKY was being developed. The team would have benefited from his racing knowledge, from his performances, and from his experience as a captain on the road. In the end, however, the premise of Team SKY, emphatically founded on creating a team that exemplifies clean sport and that has a zero tolerance on employing anybody with any doping history, made it impossible for him to join.

I am convinced Dave has learned his lesson. Since his comeback, he’s become a reformed character, a voluble contributor to the anti-doping debate through his work with Garmin-Slipstream, UK Sport, and WADA. More remarkably, his passion for cycling is undimmed, despite everything he went through. It’s very clear to anybody who knows him that he will always love riding his bike. That alone probably tells you more about who he really is than any number of speeches.

Most importantly, Dave’s story reveals what I have long believed—that, in the wrong environment, under the wrong influences, even people with the greatest integrity can make the wrong decisions. Although the culture of doping in sport is often depicted as black and white, it can be insidious and subtle: on the one hand, it exploits the vulnerable and pressurized athlete; on the other, it enables the cynical to clinically cheat. That’s why the David Millar story is so valuable and so instructive to all those who care about ethics in sport.

David Brailsford, CBE

Performance Director,

British Cycling and Principal,

Team SKY

Manchester, May 2011|

My Early Years

Even though I was born in Malta—for those who need to know, on January 4, 1977—I have always thought of myself as a Scot.

My parents, Gordon and Avril, left the island when I was eleven months old and returned to Scotland. This was a homecoming, a return from abroad to our brethren. Yet because my father was in the Royal Air Force and subject to their postings, it wasn’t really his choice where we ended up.

We lived in Forres. My earliest memories are of a housing estate, a school bus—with a metal bar across the top of the seat in front of me that I’d try to bite but couldn’t, because of the bus bumping around—and of my grandma giving me chocolate eclairs.

The RAF housing estate was my playground. I could usually be found playing with my Star Wars figurines and space ships—a quiet little boy by all accounts, living in his own little world.

1977, Malta. Proof that I was born in the seventies under the Maltese sun. Gordon looks like a Starsky & Hutch extra, while Avril looks like she’s come straight off the Buck Rogers set.

I’ve been told a story, by both Mum and Dad, about a birthday party they held for me at home. I disappeared early on and was found playing alone in my room, asking when everybody was going home. I remember being like that when I was young.

I liked drawing. In fact, I drew a lot. There was another toddler whom I was best friends with, but I can’t remember his name now. My sister Frances—sometimes “Fran,” sometimes “France”; “Fran” to others, “France” to me—arrived a little less than a year after our return to Scotland, and she quickly became my new play partner.

Fran was a quick developer and walked and talked at a freakishly young age. When people learned that I, not Fran, was the older sibling, this confused them. I’ve never had a problem with it—Fran’s propensity for talking, that is. I simply point out that I’m older than her anyway and claim seniority that way.

Dad was stationed at Kinloss, the RAF base not far from Forres. On occasions when he wasn’t flying, he’d take me to the base and I’d play on the grass-covered aircraft hangars and run around after him among the aircraft. Even now, it’s a vivid memory. Sometimes I’ll pass a garage that will have that same smell of warm metal and diesel and I’ll be back there, running among those big war machines, with my dad, in the grass-covered hangars. I wish more garages had that smell.

I was too young to understand his job, but I remember his leaving for the Falkland Islands. He just disappeared one day, and we didn’t see him again for what seemed like forever. It’s the only time I can remember my mum telling my sister and me to pray at night. There was never any news, and it must have been very hard for her.

My godfather, Major Mike Norman, was involved in the Falklands War, too. He and his wife, Thelma, were friends with my parents in Malta. Mike had given my mum a Royal Marine insignia to be flown above the house when she went into labor. She still has the flag.

Mike was something of a war hero, and, years later, while I was living in Hong Kong, I learned what a significant part he had played in the conflict when I saw a BBC film called An Ungentlemanly Act. Mike had been the commanding officer of the Royal Marines unit on the Falklands when the Argentinians invaded.

When it became clear that the Argentines were mounting a full invasion, he was charged with defending the island by Rex Hunt, the island’s governor. Although outnumbered, Mike led his men with courage and skill, but after hours of defending Governor’s House he was ordered to surrender.

Two months later, when the Argentine army capitulated, he raised the British flag once again. Nonetheless, the war left its mark on him. Many years later, after Mike had retired, my mother spoke to Thelma on the phone and asked how he was.

“Oh, he’s fine,” she said. “He’s out gardening. But you know, Avril, his knees never really recovered from that bloody yomp.”

In many ways, growing up as a forces child made us different from other kids. Our dads, whether in the RAF, army, or navy, couldn’t just switch off their value systems on coming home and taking off their uniforms. They worked in an environment with hundreds of years of history and standards. It made for a disciplined and regimented childhood.

My sister and I could be taken to any restaurant in the world, and there would be no risk of our behaving badly. Without being too hard on us, my father was a disciplinarian. But he was also incredibly funny and loving when he was relaxed and happy, which was all the funnier because it was impossible to imagine him ever being the same when he was in his uniform.

I remember one flier friend never stopped calling him “sir,” even when they were both in civilian clothes.

“Why don’t you just call him Gordon?” I asked him once.

“I can’t, David,” he replied, deadpan. “He’s my commanding officer.”

Years later, after my dad had left the forces and joined Cathay Pacific, I appreciated what a change it must have been for him going from being a young wing commander in the Royal Air Force to a middle-aged copilot in a commercial airline. It couldn’t have been easy for him.

My dad was reckless at times. I remember seeing him, around the time that he was a squadron leader, standing in the dining room looking out of the window, staring at his white Lotus Elite. There was something broken about his expression—he told me that he’d crashed his car and that he felt sad.

I first learned to ride a bike in Scotland. But it was hardly the most auspicious start to my cycling career, as I rode into the back of a parked car on one of those first rides.

In fact, I was a little accident-prone. Playing tag at school, I managed to break my collarbone for the first time. It took my mum, bless her, three days to believe that I’d broken it. I’m not sure if that says more about me, or my mum.

My mum is one of the most intelligent people I know, able to maintain a challenging conversation on almost any subject. She studied engineering at Glasgow University, based on her admiration for her adopted father, yet, forty years on, she is now on her fourth different career. She came from a loving yet unorthodox family, adopted as a baby by a couple already in their mid-forties. Today the only family she has is my sister and me, and her fabulous piano-playing neighbor Terry. Her background probably explains her absolute love for France and me, yet this collarbone incident also showed she was no pushover.

Just before we left Scotland, I did it again. One of my best friends had a hill in his back garden that in winter hardened to a stony mix of frost, ice, and snow. Naturally, we considered it our duty to ride down this. I must have taken it more seriously than him, because I was the one who ended up crumpled at the bottom of the hill, nursing a second broken collarbone.

There’s a final memory of our time in Scotland—of leaving in 1984, and Fran and I, cocooned in the bucket seats of my dad’s Lotus, singing along to Yazoo. Dad had a new posting. We were moving on again, heading south to our new house in Stone, Buckinghamshire.

It’s hard to imagine Frances and me arriving in England as wee Scots, the two of us arguing away with our strong singsong accents. The years since, traveling and living in many different places, have left me with the most neutral of accents.

If anything, what I have now is an expat Brit accent that morphs itself spontaneously to mimic those around me. It’s not something I’m proud of; I would much prefer to have held on to the Scottish accent that I had as a child, because I remain very proud of being a Scot.



At times, I have to admit that, listening to my English accent while calling myself Scottish, I’ve felt like a fraud. But then I suppose our nomadic lifestyle made it important that we were good at “fitting in.”

When I started school in Buckinghamshire, I would always play lunchtime football in Scottish national team kit. Looking back, I think losing my accent was a pivotal moment. Even so, I feel most at home when surrounded by Scots, and it was among Scots that I spent most of my time during my doping ban.

I didn’t enjoy school that much, but out of the classroom, I had a blast, particularly after I discovered BMX and became the proud owner of a Raleigh Super Tuff Burner. Dad would take me along to the BMX race leagues in High Wycombe every other weekend. I was eight years old, and it was the perfect introduction to racing.

The BMX boom was at its height, and movies such as ET and BMX Bandits were big box office. I still haven’t seen ET, even though, a few years later while on a family holiday in California, I was chosen out of a throng of children to ride the ET BMX against a blue screen at Universal Studios. I couldn’t bring myself to tell them I hadn’t actually seen the film.

I loved the rush of BMX racing. The start gate would come crashing down, and the ten riders in the field would hurtle with childish abandon toward the first ramps and left-hand banked turn, or “burn.” There was very little skill involved. It was more dependent on a lot of youthful courage and blind luck.

I was still on my trusty Raleigh, competing against kids on special racing BMXs. This had never bothered me, until one day, when, after finishing in the top three and while pushing my Raleigh back up the hill for the next race, I heard the commentator remark on my less-than-special bike. I was upset to say the least.

Despite that, in my first season I finished fourth in the county for my age group. This entitled me to a number 4 handlebar plate for the next season, but I clearly remember thinking that fourth in the county wasn’t really that good.

I don’t know why I would have such high expectations or put such pressure on myself at such a young age. I was competing against boys who were clearly taking it much more seriously than I was. For my dad and me, it was simply a Sunday out together. He didn’t allow himself to get mixed up in overcompetitive dad syndrome. Any pressure or desire I had to perform came from me and me alone.

1986, Stone primary school. Frances and I rocking the uniform. I get the impression there was a lot of giggling pre- and post-photograph.

But that number 4 plate was never used because my beloved Super Tuff Burner was stolen that winter, effectively ending my BMX career. I spent years looking in ditches and scouring bike racks searching for that bike, and it took me a very long time to accept that it was never coming back.

As well as BMX, I’d taken to roller-skating much of the time, usually at roller discos. I can’t remember how often the roller discos were, but they were never regular enough for me. I was a roller-disco king—Thame Leisure Centre was my kingdom.

France, in true younger sibling fashion, had taken to copying everything I did, be it BMX or roller-skating. It was never long before France was, like me, fully equipped, tagging along. Most irritatingly, everybody still thought she was my older sister, which was not cool for an already quiet, shy, introspective boy. I’m ashamed to say that I did my best to make sure that skating was the last hobby of mine that Frances copied. At the time, I didn’t see the love, only the burden of a little sister.

France was so confident, so able to talk to people. She would talk to anybody at any time on any subject. We—my parents and I—would hang back and send her forward to ask all sorts of things of all sorts of people. We didn’t need local knowledge or a tour guide when we were on holiday, because we had our own little search engine on legs. Frances was our Google.

My mum and dad made a significant effort to improve us both. We were both given extra tuition outside of school, and I was learning to play the trombone and the piano. I was trombonist in the school jazz band, and now it amazes me that I pretended to enjoy it and persevered for so long.

But there were problems at home. It became impossible to ignore the troubles between my parents. At first, it had been subtle, but now there were things that I couldn’t ignore. It became harder to pretend that the fights weren’t happening. I suppose it had been going on for a long while, but children choose not to see such things.

Eventually, things reached a crisis point. I was woken up in the middle of the night, my tearful mum and dad sitting on my bed, telling me that they were splitting up, that it wasn’t my fault and that I should look after my sister.

I don’t think I cried. I certainly don’t remember being tearful, but I remember being incredibly fucking angry. My childhood had come to an abrupt end. I was eleven.

The next morning, I walked to school as usual, through grass covered in morning dew, my feet leaving a trail behind me.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Exuberant Frailty
By Doctor Moss
This book really grabbed me. Yep, David Millar is pretty fascinated with himself, but this is an autobiography after all -- he had to be fascinated enough with himself to write it. Most readers looking at this review probably already know who David Millar is -- he's been an elite professional cyclist for more than 10 years, winning stages of all three grand tours (France, Spain, Italy), specializing in individual time trials. And he is a reformed doper, having been banned from pro cycling for 2 years from 2004 to 2006.

Millar tells his story in three stages. In the first, he is a gifted rider, progressing from almost too-easy dominance in smaller amateur races to the challenges of a new pro. He's up for the challenges, though, eventually winning races while staying clean. All along he's prideful in his quiet, personal anti-doping stance. When he finds that his hematocrit level tested at only 40.1 per cent (well below the threshold of suspicion at 50 percent) after winning the time trial at De Panne, he's excited. He's proven he can win clean against a field he knows is doping. But in one of the most poignant moments of the book, he proudly tells Francesco Casagrande, one of his team leaders, of his feat, and Casagrande just says to another team member, "Why isn't he at 50?" It doesn't matter if you can win clean -- what your team wants is that you race at your max, and your max means doping.

Eventually, Millar hits the wall in his career, due to poor training habits, excessive lifestyle, and, presumably, operating at a disadvantage with respect to riders using EPO and other performance-enhancing drugs and treatments. By this time, he's already taking injections of vitamins to aid recovery from race efforts and sleeping meds to get rested enough to race day after day. Now he accepts doping just as what riders do in order to be successful. He's caught red-handed, and he faces both suspension by the sport and criminal charges in France, where he lives.

In stage 3, Millar makes his comeback. During his suspension, he doesn't ride. He's lost the fun of cycling -- it's turned into a job, and now a job he can no longer perform. And his personal life has gone to hell. But he does pull it together, with help, and he is just gifted enough to get enough initial success to propel himself forward. He returns to the top of the sport again, and now, with Jonathon Vaughters' new clean team, Garmin, he finds what he clearly thinks is his more mature self, a spokesperson for clean cycling.

In the end, Millar takes a strident born-again anti-doping stance. He believes that what he lacked as a younger rider was someone who could give him the encouragement and support he needed to resist doping. Doping was ubiquitous but never talked about among the riders. The silence meant that even clean riders couldn't take a stance or band together for support with other clean riders. Now Millar wants, as an established, successful rider and doping-survivor, to fill that gap for other riders who want to stay clean.

He may be too fervent to be effective at getting other riders to do the same. He "lectures" Lance Armstrong after the 2007 Tour de France, challenging him to "Give something back, help us clean up the sport . . . " It doesn't go well, he says, having "perhaps lectured him for a little too long -- 10 minutes too long" in public. Lance says he has "bigger things to do now" than clean up cycling, and the friendship between the two is pretty much cooked.

I liked Millar at the end of the book. He is full of himself, and he proves that over and over again. But, unlike so many other cyclists, he ultimately admits his frailties. Even after having been caught, so many others, like Floyd Landis, carry on the lie in one way or another, destroying their personal credibility so thoroughly that we wouldn't listen to them even if they did try finally to tell the truth.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Doping in Cycling
By Slackerprince
This book is about:

1) Doping
2) Doping in cycling
3) One rider's struggle with doping
4) Pro cycling

If you're looking for a book about the pro cycling scene, aside from doping, this is not it.
It starts out decent enough, but Millar's attitude and tortured soul confessions grow tiresome
as the story proceeds.
It seems, as if, the whole premise of the book is to let the reader know that he tried as HARD as
he could to resist doping, then after he was busted, that he did everything he could to redeem himself.
There are many clunky trasitions in this book. Millar writes about a certain race and his performance, and then, CLUNK, he's on to the next race, with no resolution of the previous race. He does it with his girlfriends, too. He introduces a relationship and details the progression and how she fits into his life in racing, then, CLUNK, he's broken up with her and on to someone new, without any explanation of how and why it ended. She's just, gone...
Some books, about a subject you love, you wish would never end. This wasn't that kind of book for me.
Millar doesn't come off as likeable, and he projects a "victim" mentality that didn't have me rooting for
him at any point in the book.
I couldn't wait to finish it, and found myself skimming, near the end.
On the positive side, though, besides a few clunky transitions, the book is well written and flows smoothly. You could probably read it in a weekend.
Also, he takes for granted that the readers are knowledgeable about the sport, so using terms, like, "on the front," "getting dropped," "chainring," etc., aren't explained, so the book isn't really dumbed-down for the general reading public, which moves the story along.
All in all, if you're a pro cycling fan, or just want to learn more about doping and it's effects in pro sports, it's a decent read.
I got a great deal on a brand-new, hardcover copy, so no worries.

S

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
From Darkness to Light
By Lynn McArd
The doping era in cycling was a sad time for the sport. There are still a lot of people out there, who have never raced, that still burn and curse the riders who doped. They should really read this book so that they can get a clue. David Millar brings across what it was like to be a pro cyclist during that time. When your livelihood depends on producing results and your competition is dropping you by doping.....you can start to understand.
David does a wonderful job revealing the anguish that he, and others, went through in order to stay in the sport that he loved. He was able to get out of doping and deserves high credit for trying to get others out as well. It is sad that football, basketball and baseball athletes can dope and not get the harassment that pro cyclists did - and still do- even when they went clean. I applaud David for writing this book and bringing light to the darkness of that era!

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Data analysis is the process of applying logical and analytical reasoning to study each component of data. Python is a multi-domain, high-level, programming language. It's often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and operability with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Python has powerful standard libraries or toolkits such as Pylearn2 and Hebel, which offers a fast, reliable, cross-platform environment for data analysis.

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Phuong Vo.T.H

Phuong Vo.T.H has a MSc degree in computer science, which is related to machine learning. After graduation, she continued to work in some companies as a data scientist. She has experience in analyzing users' behavior and building recommendation systems based on users' web histories. She loves to read machine learning and mathematics algorithm books, as well as data analysis articles.



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Martin Czygan studied German literature and computer science in Leipzig, Germany. He has been working as a software engineer for more than 10 years. For the past eight years, he has been diving into Python, and is still enjoying it. In recent years, he has been helping clients to build data processing pipelines and search and analytics systems. His consultancy can be found at http://www.xvfz.net.

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For any software developer who has spent days in “integration hell,” cobbling together myriad software components, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques.

 

The authors first examine the concept of CI and its practices from the ground up and then move on to explore other effective processes performed by CI systems, such as database integration, testing, inspection, deployment, and feedback. Through more than forty CI-related practices using application examples in different languages, readers learn that CI leads to more rapid software development, produces deployable software at every step in the development lifecycle, and reduces the time between defect introduction and detection, saving time and lowering costs. With successful implementation of CI, developers reduce risks and repetitive manual processes, and teams receive better project visibility.

 

The book covers

  • How to make integration a “non-event” on your software development projects
  • How to reduce the amount of repetitive processes you perform when building your software
  • Practices and techniques for using CI effectively with your teams
  • Reducing the risks of late defect discovery, low-quality software, lack of visibility, and lack of deployable software
  • Assessments of different CI servers and related tools on the market

The book’s companion Web site, www.integratebutton.com, provides updates and code examples.

 

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  • Original language: English
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From the Back Cover
For any software developer who has spent days in "integration hell," cobbling together myriad software components, "Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk" illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques. The authors first examine the concept of CI and its practices from the ground up and then move on to explore other effective processes performed by CI systems, such as database integration, testing, inspection, deployment, and feedback. Through more than forty CI-related practices using application examples in different languages, readers learn that CI leads to more rapid software development, produces deployable software at every step in the development lifecycle, and reduces the time between defect introduction and detection, saving time and lowering costs. With successful implementation of CI, developers reduce risks and repetitive manual processes, and teams receive better project visibility. The book covers

  • How to make integration a "non-event" on your software development projects
  • How to reduce the amount of repetitive processes you perform when building your software
  • Practices and techniques for using CI effectively with your teams
  • Reducing the risks of late defect discovery, low-quality software, lack of visibility, and lack of deployable software
  • Assessments of different CI servers and related tools on the market
The book's companion Web site, www.integratebutton.com, provides updates and code examples.

About the Author

Paul Duvall is the CEO of Stelligent, a firm that helps clients create production-ready software every day. A featured speaker at many leading software conferences, he has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect, and tester. He is the principal author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007), a 2008 Jolt Award Winner. Paul contributed to the UML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), writes a series for IBM developerWorks called Automation for the people, and contributed a chapter to No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes and actively blogs on IntegrateButton.com and TestEarly.com.

Stephen M. Matyas III is vice president of AutomateIT, a service branch of 5AM Solutions. He has a varied background in applied software engineering, with much of his professional, hands-on experience being in the areas of enterprise Java and custom software development and services.

Andrew Glover, president of Stelligent Incorporated, is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout North America, as well as author and coauthor of many books and online articles.

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Early in my career, I saw a full-page advertisement in a magazine that showed one keyboard key, similar to the Enter key, labeled with the word “Integrate.” The text below the key read, “If only it were this easy.” I am not sure who or what this ad was for, but it struck a chord with me. In considering software development, I thought, surely that would never be achievable because, on my project, we spent several days in “integration hell” attempting to cobble together the myriad software components at the end of most project milestones. But I liked the concept, so I cut out the ad and hung it on my wall. To me, it represented one of my chief goals in being an efficient software developer: to automate repetitive and error-prone processes. Furthermore, it embodied my belief in making software integration a “nonevent” (as Martin Fowler has called this) on a project—something that just happens as a matter of course. Continuous Integration (CI) can help make integration a nonevent on your project.

What Is This Book About?

Consider some of the more typical development processes on a software project: Code is compiled, and data is defined and manipulated via a database; testing occurs, code is reviewed, and ultimately, software is deployed. In addition, teams almost certainly need to communicate with one another regarding the status of the software. Imagine if you could perform these processes at the press of a single button.

This book demonstrates how to create a virtual Integrate button to automate many software development processes. What’s more, we describe how this Integrate button can be pressed continuously to reduce the risks that prevent you from creating deployable applications, such as the late discovery of defects and low-quality code. In creating a CI system, many of these processes are automated, and they run every time the software under development is changed.

What Is Continuous Integration?

The process of integrating software is not a new problem. Software integration may not be as much of an issue on a one-person project with few external system dependencies, but as the complexity of a project increases (even just adding one more person), there is a greater need to integrate and ensure that software components work together—early and often. Waiting until the end of a project to integrate leads to all sorts of software quality problems, which are costly and often lead to project delays. CI addresses these risks faster and in smaller increments.

In his popular “Continuous Integration” article, 1 Martin Fowler describes CI as:

. . . a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily—leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

In my experience, this means that:

  • All developers run private builds 2 on their own workstations before committing their code to the version control repository to ensure that their changes don’t break the integration build.
  • Developers commit their code to a version control repository at least once a day.
  • Integration builds occur several times a day on a separate build machine.
  • 100% of tests must pass for every build.
  • A product is generated (e.g., WAR, assembly, executable, etc.) that can be functionally tested.
  • Fixing broken builds is of the highest priority.
  • Some developers review reports generated by the build, such as coding standards and dependency analysis reports, to seek areas for improvement.

This book discusses the automated aspects of CI because of the many benefits you receive from automating repetitive and error-prone processes; however, as Fowler identifies, CI is the process of integrating work frequently—and this need not be an automated process to qualify. We clearly believe that since there are many great tools that support CI as an automated process, using a CI server to automate your CI practices is an effective approach. Nevertheless, a manual approach to integration (using an automated build) may work well with your team.

Rapid Feedback
Continuous Integration increases your opportunities for feedback. Through it, you learn the state of the project several times a day. CI can be used to reduce the time between when a defect is introduced and when it is fixed, thus improving overall software quality.

A development team should not believe that because their CI system is automated, they are safe from integration problems. It is even less true if the group is using an automated tool for nothing more than compiling source code; some refer to this as a “build,” which it is not (see Chapter 1). The effective practice of CI involves much more than a tool. It includes the practices we outline in the book, such as frequent commits to a version control repository, fixing broken builds immediately, and using a separate integration build machine.

The practice of CI enables faster feedback. When using effective CI practices, you’ll know the overall health of software under development several times a day. What’s more, CI works well with practices like refactoring and test-driven development, because these practices are centered on the notion of making small changes. CI, in essence, provides a safety net to ensure that changes work with the rest of the software. At a higher level, CI increases the collective confidence of teams and lessens the amount of human activity needed on projects, because it’s often a hands-off process that runs whenever your software changes.

A Note on the Word “Continuous”
We use the term “continuous” in this book, but the usage is technically incorrect. “Continuous” implies that something kicks off once and never stops. This suggests that the process is constantly integrating, which is not the case in even the most intense CI environment. So, what we are describing in this book is more like “continual integration.” Who Should Read This Book?

In our experience, there is a distinct difference between someone who treats software development as a job and someone who treats it as a profession. This book is for those who work at their profession and find themselves performing repetitive processes on a project (or we will help you realize just how often you are doing so). We describe the practices and benefits of CI and give you the knowledge to apply these practices so that you can direct your time and expertise to more important, challenging issues.

This book covers the major topics relating to CI, including how to implement CI using continuous feedback, testing, deployment, inspection, and database integration. No matter what your role in software development, you can incorporate CI into your own software development processes. If you are a software professional who wants to become increasingly effective—getting more done with your time and with more dependable results—you will gain much from this book.

Developers

If you have noticed that you’d rather be developing software for users than fiddling with software integration issues, this book will help you get there without much of the “pain” you thought would be involved. This book doesn’t ask you to spend more time integrating; it’s about making much of software integration a nonevent, leaving you to focus on doing what you love the most: developing software. The many practices and examples in this book demonstrate how to implement an effective CI system.

Build/Configuration/Release Management

If your job is to get working software out the door, you’ll find this book particularly interesting as we demonstrate that by running processes every time a change is applied to a version control repository, you can generate cohesive, working software. Many of you are managing builds while filling other roles on your project, such as development. CI will do some of the “thinking” for you, and instead of waiting until the end of the development lifecycle, it creates deployable and testable software several times a day.

Testers

CI offers a rapid feedback approach to software development, all but eliminating the traditional pain of reoccurring defects even after “fixes” were applied. Testers usually gain increased satisfaction and interest in their roles on a project using CI, since software to test is available more often and with smaller scopes. With a CI system in your development lifecycle, you test all along the way, rather than the typical feast or famine scenario where testers are either testing into the late hours or not testing at all.

Managers

This book can have great impact for you if you seek a higher level of confidence in your team’s capability to consistently and repeatedly deliver working software. You can manage scopes of time, cost, and quality much more effectively because you are basing your decisions on working software with actual feedback and metrics, not just task items on a project schedule.

Organization of This Book

This book is divided into two parts. Part I is an introduction to CI and examines the concept and its practices from the ground up. Part I is geared toward those readers not familiar with the core practices of CI. We do not feel the practice of CI is complete, however, without a Part II that naturally expands the core concepts into other effective processes performed by CI systems, such as testing, inspection, deployment, and feedback.

Part I: A Background on CI—Principles and Practices

Chapter 1, Getting Started, gets you right into things with a high-level example of using a CI server to continuously build your software.

Chapter 2, Introducing Continuous Integration, familiarizes you with the common practices and how we got to CI.

Chapter 3, Reducing Risks Using CI, identifies the key risks CI can mitigate using scenario-based examples.

Chapter 4, Building Software at Every Change, explores the practice of integrating your software for every change by leveraging the automated build.

Part II: Creating a Full-Featured CI System

Chapter 5, Continuous Database Integration, moves into more advanced concepts involving the process of rebuilding databases and applying test data as part of every integration build.

Chapter 6, Continuous Testing, covers the concepts and strategies of testing software with every integration build.

Chapter 7, Continuous Inspection, takes you through some automated and continuous inspections (static and dynamic analysis) using different tools and techniques.

Chapter 8, Continuous Deployment, explores the process of deploying software using a CI system so that it can be functionally tested.

Chapter 9, Continuous Feedback, describes and demonstrates the use of continuous feedback devices (such as e-mail, RSS, X10, and the Ambient Orb) so that you are notified on build success or failure as it happens.

The Epilogue explores the future possibilities of CI.

Appendixes

Appendix A, CI Resources, includes a list of URLs, tools, and papers related to CI.

Appendix B, Evaluating CI Tools, assesses the different CI servers and related tools on the market, discusses their applicability to the practices described in the book, identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each, and explains how to use some of their more interesting features.

Other Features

The book includes features that help you to better learn and apply what we describe in the text.

  • Practices—We cover more than forty CI-related practices in this book. Many chapter subheadings are practices. A figure at the beginning of most chapters illustrates the practices covered and lets you scan for areas that interest you. For example, use a dedicated integration build machine and commit code frequently are both examples of practices discussed in this book.
  • Examples—We demonstrate how to apply these practices by using various examples in different languages and platforms.
  • Questions—Each chapter concludes with a list of questions to help you evaluate the application of CI practices on your project.
  • Web site—The book’s companion Web site, www.integratebutton.com, provides book updates, code examples, and other material.
What You Will Learn

By reading this book, you will learn concepts and practices that enable you to create cohesive, working software many times a day. We have taken care to focus on the practices first, followed by the application of these practices, with examples included as demonstration wherever possible. The examples use different development platforms, such as Java, Microsoft .NET, and even some Ruby. CruiseControl (Java and .NET versions) is the primary CI server used throughout the book; however, we have created similar examples using other servers and tools on the companion Web site (www.integratebutton.com) and in Appendix B.

As you work your way through the book, you gain these insights:

  • How implementing CI produces deployable software at every step in your development lifecycle.
  • How CI can reduce the time between when a defect is introduced and when that defect is detected, thereby lowering the cost to fix it.
  • How you can build quality into your software by building software often rather than waiting to the latter stages of development.
What This Book Does Not Cover

This book does not cover every tool—build scheduling, programming environment, version control, and so on—that makes up your CI system. It focuses on the implementation of CI practices to develop an effective CI system. CI practices are discussed first; if a particular tool demonstrated is no longer in use or doesn’t meet your particular needs, simply apply the practice using another tool to achieve the same effect.

It is also not possible, or useful, to cover every type of test, feedback mechanism, automated inspector, and type of deployment used by a CI system. We hope that a greater goal is met by focusing on the range of key practices, using examples of techniques and tools for database integration, testing, inspection, and feedback that may inspire applications as different as the projects and teams that learn about them. As mentioned throughout the book, the book’s companion Web site, www.integratebutton.com, contains examples using other tools and languages that may not be covered in the book.

Authorship

This book has three coauthors and one contributor. I wrote most of the chapters. Steve Matyas contributed to Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, and Appendix A, and constructed some of the book’s examples. Andy Glover wrote Chapters 6, 7, and 8, provided examples, and made contributions elsewhere in the book. Eric Tavela wrote Appendix B. So when sentences use first-person pronouns, this should provide clarity as to who is saying what.

About the Cover

I was excited when I learned that our book was to be a part of the renowned Martin Fowler Signature Series. I knew this meant that I would get to choose a bridge for the cover of the book. My coauthors and I are part of a rare breed who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. For those of you not from the region, it’s a very transient area. More specifically, we are from Northern Virginia and figured it would be a fitting tribute to choose the Natural Bridge in Virginia for the cover. I had never visited the bridge until early 2007—after I had chosen it for the book cover. It has a very interesting history and I found it incredible that it’s a functioning bridge that automobiles travel on every day. (Of course, I had to drive my car over it a couple of times.) I’d like to think that after reading this book, you will make CI a natural part of your next software development project.

Acknowledgments

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read acknowledgments in a book and authors wrote how they “couldn’t have done it by (themselves)” and other such things. I always thought to myself, “They’re just being falsely modest.” Well, I was dead wrong. This book was a massive undertaking to which I am grateful to the people listed herein.

I’d like to thank my publisher, Addison-Wesley. In particular, I’d like to express my appreciation to my executive editor, Chris Guzikowski, for working with me during this exhaustive process. His experience, insight, and encouragement were tremendous. Furthermore, my development editor, Chris Zahn, provided solid recommendations throughout multiple versions and editing cycles. I’d also like to thank Karen Gettman, Michelle Housley, Jessica D’Amico, Julie Nahil, Rebecca Greenberg, and last but definitely not least, my first executive editor, Mary O’Brien.

Rich Mills hosted the CVS server for the book and offered excellent ideas during brainstorming sessions. I’d also like to thank my mentor and friend, Rob Daly, for getting me into professional writing in 2002 and for providing exceptionally detailed reviews throughout the writing process. John Steven was instrumental in helping me start this book’s writing process.

I’d like to express my gratitude to my coauthors, editor, and contributing author. Steve Matyas and I endured many sleepless nights to create what you are reading today. Andy Glover was our clutch writer, providing his considerable developer testing experience to the project. Lisa Porter, our contributing editor, tirelessly combed through every major revision to provide edits and recommendations which helped increase the quality of the book. A thank you to Eric Tavela, who wrote the CI tools appendix, and to Levent Gurses for providing his experiences with Maven 2 in Appendix B.

We had an eclectic cadre of personal technical reviewers who provided excellent feedback throughout this project. They include Tom Copeland, Rob Daly, Sally Duvall, Casper Hornstrup, Joe Hunt, Erin Jackson, Joe Konior, Rich Mills, Leslie Power, David Sisk, Carl Tallis, Eric Tavela, Dan Taylor, and Sajit Vasudevan.

I’d also like to thank Charles Murray and Cristalle Belonia for their assistance, and Maciej Zawadzki and Eric Minick from Urbancode for their help. I am grateful for the support of many great people who inspire me every day at Stelligent, including Burke Cox, Mandy Owens, David Wood, and Ron Wright. There are many others who have inspired my work over the years, including Rich Campbell, David Fado, Mike Fraser, Brent Gendleman, Jon Hughes, Jeff Hwang, Sherry Hwang, Sandi Kyle, Brian Lyons, Susan Mason, Brian Messer, Sandy Miller, John Newman, Marcus Owen, Chris Painter, Paulette Rogers, Mark Simonik, Joe Stusnick, and Mike Trail.

I also appreciate the thorough feedback from the Addison-Wesley technical review team, including Scott Ambler, Brad Appleton, Jon Eaves, Martin Fowler, Paul Holser, Paul Julius, Kirk Knoernschild, Mike Melia, Julian Simpson, Andy Trigg, Bas Vodde, Michael Ward, and Jason Yip.

I want to thank the attendees of CITCON Chicago 2006 for sharing their experiences on CI and testing with all of us. In particular, I’d like to acknowledge Paul Julius and Jeffrey Frederick for organizing the conference, and everyone else who attended the event.

Finally, I’d like to thank Jenn for her unrelenting support and for being there through the ups and downs of making this book.

Paul M. Duvall
Fairfax, Virginia
March 2007

Notes

1. See www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html.
2. The Private (System) Build and Integration Build patterns are covered inSoftware Configuration Management Patterns by Stephen P. Berczuk and Brad Appleton.

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Covers all the major deployment and automation issues
By Thing with a hook
Continuous Integration refers to the practice of automating the build, testing and deployment of your software, so that producing a finished executable (and the related artifacts) can be done at the touch of a button, and is ideally carried out several times a day.

If this seems like a nice to have feature of your own development, but less of a core practice when compared to version control and comprehensive tests (both of which are requirements for doing CI), this book does a pretty good job of advocating CI as being just as important.

First, the book introduces the core practices of CI (regular builds, tests, and deployment), then goes on to demonstrate how it facilitates other, more advanced practices, which gain value when automated, such as enforcing code style, and recording code metrics.

It does not assume any particular platform, although most of the code uses Java and C# (and associated XML configuration). As a result, it will appeal most to those who want general guidance about why CI is a good idea, what to put under CI, how often to integrate, how long to allow the build to take, what to do if builds are too slow, etc. There's clearly no one-size-fits-all answer to this and this not a step-by-step tutorial book, so you'll need to adapt the code samples given in this book for your own ends.

Therefore, if you're completely new to the idea of CI, then maybe you might want to check out Mike Clark's Pragmatic Project Automation first, which covers a lot of the same ground as the first part of this book, but goes into a lot more detail about the mechanics of using Ant and JUnit with Cruise Control.

Apart from being more language agnostic, what takes this book beyond the Pragmatic tome is the second part, which demonstrates the more advanced processes that CI makes possible: including a chapter on how to integrate databases into CI, which touches on some cultural issues (e.g. the DBA being separate from the rest of the coding team) and providing sandboxes for each developer. Additionally, there's material on how to include reporting and analysis, e.g. code duplication, code coverage and static analysis tools such as Java's FindBugs.

It's also a quick and easy read (less than 300 pages), while still having a pretty wide purview. I don't think this is a subject that would benefit from an enormous tome, and you'll still come away with a much clearer idea of your project's automation and scheduling needs, although you might have to do a bit of digging in online documentation of the various tools mentioned in the book to find your exact solution.

The only bad thing I have to say about this book is that there are some very brief developer dialogues sprinkled throughout, used as examples to highlight suboptimal practices. As ever, these are cringe-inducing and artificial.

Out of the core agile practices of unit testing, version control, and project automation, the latter has the least amount of material available to read. Fortunately, this is a readable, persuasive and helpful book for curing the big bang integration blues.

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This book is an excellent overview of why Continuous Integration is important and about more than just compiling frequently. The book helps you to understand why to do CI, what you can do beyond building, and how to do it. In addition to general principles, the book points you to some excellent tools and resources. This book is an excellent companion to Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration; it provides teriffic information that support the build patterns in that book. You might already know some of the information in this book, but it is worth buying if you need to encourge CI in your organization for the clear discussion of why CI matters and the for the detailed advice on how to implement it.

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This book is a must read for everyone delving into the practice of Continuous Integration. In my opinion, Continuous Integration is one of the most important practices to really achieve agility and to mitigate risks related to architecture and software integration.

The book contains more than 40 practices related to this important subject. For me, an experienced software engineer who already uses and knows a lot of CI tools, the best chapters are those which illuminate how to do Continuous Database Integration (Chapter 5), Continuous Testing (Chapter 6) and Continuous Inspection (Chapter 7).

Another great plus of this book is Appendix B on how to evaluate CI Tools. It gives a lot of hints to choose the right CI tool for your project or company.

Even if you are an experienced CI practitioner this book is a welcome addition. It shows why each practice is important and what are the benefits to use it on a SW development project.

If you are a beginner or intermediate practitioner in the Continuous Integration World this book is a must have. You will receive a lot of wisdom collected by the authors during their careers.

If you don't know what is Continuous Integration read the great article by Martin Fowler.

Spare you a lot of integration and software quality headaches reading this excellent book!

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great book
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This book is worth buying whether you are a newcomer or a current researcher in the field of TDDFT. It covers the fundamental concepts as well as the recent updates on the research in this field. All the chapters are written by leading scientists in the field. It is quite rare to find lectures of so many of the current researchers of a field
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The critical parts
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Normally on books covering relatively new techniques, some space is given, especially in the basic chapters (as opposed to applied -- in fact the basic chapters are really the most advanced) to problems, whether eexperimental or more fundamental and theoretical, with the model. Such is hardly to be found here. In fact a recent article I saw mentioned that oscillator strengths found in 'velocity' are often not identical with those found from 'lengths', i.e. transition momentum representation versus transition moment representation. In reality, this cannot be true. Thus, there is something fundamentally wrong with the method whenever this happens. It would be nice if a critical account of this were presented. In fact I believe it does all track down to the fact that in ALL DFT methods, one eschews complex-valued functions. In some cases, i.e. Klein-Gordan field-wavefunctions one can simply double up the number of variables, and it makes little difference. Here however, one cannit. The correct radiation Hamiltonian utilizes p/dot/A where A is the vector potential and p the electron momentum. The object over which this operator acts are *spinors*, if they are represented as real, they are 4x4 matrices, if they are represented as complex, they are 2-complex dimensional bivectors. Dirac was well aware that it is impossible to represent interaction with the electromagnetic field in a causal, relativistic theory linear in the covariant space-time derivatives using only real numbers. Q.E.D. Without some very fancy approximation methods, ANY DFT, including TDDFT, is bound to fail. Things get even worse with gauge invariance (perchance as in circular dichroism). Since the vector potential is not always a well defined object, people now talk about gauge connections of the U1 fibre bundle. This object IS well defined in a larger variety of problems. Unfortunately, it really does require one to keep trakc of phases in a complex space. Other relativistic effects could also be expected to suffer with DFT treatments.

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