Webfoot Task Mapper

Welcome to the WPI Environment Built For Object-Oriented Teams (WEBFOOT) Task Mapper.

Webfoot is an on-going project that delivers several tools to help teams collaborate. The project, while targeted to academic users, may be useful for any organization where team members need to collaborate. Webfoot intends to integrate existing software tools, such as Eclipse, SourceForge, and others that are commonly used by software development teams into a unified environment that can be easily customized, extended, and adapted for the specific team or organization's use. Webfoot is an open source project hosted at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). You can find out more about the project, obtain the current release, and other information at the Webfoot home page.

Abstract

The Webfoot development environment is an umbrella project with the goal to provide collaborative tools for distributed software development teams specifically in the academic setting. Through the use of the Eclipse IDE, Webfoot is able to integrate Eclipse with different collaborative development environments such as SourceForge. The Webfoot project offers artifact and task management, communication and other collaboration tools. The Webfoot Task Mapper is an example of one project under the wide spectrum of projects. Within the Task Mapper, we develop our own notion of a Webfoot tasks for the software teams to utilize. The Task Mapper is an Eclipse plug-in that will interface with SourceForge to make task management transparent between SourceForge and Eclipse. Tasks in a software engineering team are important to the communication of the team. Within the task mapping tool, users are able to create, view, modify and delete tasks for projects they are assigned to from either SourceForge or Eclipse.

How to get started with task mapping

  1. Getting Started
  2. Connecting To Task Mapper
  3. Task Groups
  4. Working with Tasks