You can use a provided rule template
to create custom rule categories and rules for software analyses.
About this task
To create custom rule categories and rules:
Procedure
- Click .
- To add a custom rule category, on the Custom
Rules and Categories page, click Add Category.
- In the Add Custom Category window,
click a parent category for your custom rule category and click Next.
- Type a name for the new category.
- Click Finish and verify that the
new rule category is listed in the Current® Custom
Categories tree.
- On the Custom Rules and Categories page,
click Add Rule.
- In the Add Custom Rule window, click
the category to which to add the custom rule and click Next.
- Click the rule template to use as a model for the new rule
and click Next.
To create the
rule, provide the required values. Depending on the template that
you select, the following values might be required:
- The fully qualified class name for the new rule; for example, java.lang.String
- The name of the method that detects method invocations in
the source code
- The number of arguments that the method uses
- The severity level for the new rule (recommended, warning,
severe)
- Click Finish and verify that the
new rule is listed in the Current Custom
Rules tree.