由于软件开发中最基本的活动是编写代码，这些角色更倾向于拥有一定的开发背景。

Since the fundamental activity of developing software is writing code, these people tend to come from a development background.

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工程师不再在最基本的文件和代码模块层面工作，而是在能够表现他们正在进行的软件的商业价值的更高的抽象层面上工作。

Engineers no longer work at the rudimentary level of files and code modules. Rather, they work at a higher level of abstraction to address the business value of the software they are proposing.

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源代码插装：最基本的技巧是在源代码阶段添加插装，这样编译和部署后的类就已经在运行时包含了插装。

Source code instrumentation: the most basic technique is to add instrumentation at the source code phase so that the compiled and deployed classes already contain the instrumentation at run time.

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It says check to see if I'm in that base case.

这段代码是检查目前是否是最基本的情况。

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