Webfoot User Guide

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

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

Background

Webfoot began as an idea conceived at meetings of the WPI Software Tools Technology Group (STTG) in 2005. It has become a focal point for sub-projects, such as undergraduate major qualifying projects (MQPs) and graduate independent study projects as well as individual contributions from several sources. The educational goals of the project are for the Webfoot contributors to learn how to build robust software systems using existing software tools, and to learn about research and development techniques.

Contents of this guide

Most of Webfoot's capabilities can be used in a stand-alone manner. We impose no restrictions upon your development process and few restrictions on the type of data that you keep in your development artifacts. The remainder of the guide focuses mainly on specific type of activities that you might perform on your projects when you use Webfoot.

Release notes

Release notes for all versions of Webfoot may be obtained from the Webfoot project release notes page.

Contacting us

You can reach the Webfoot team by sending email to webfoot@wpi.edu. You can also visit the Webfoot home page to join the project, submit defects and enhancement requests, and so on.