Creating your own Code Inspector checks

In this recipe, we will see how we can create our own company specific checks and categories and display them with the standard check categories. For simplicity's sake, we will create a check by the name My Check under a new category My Check category. When this check will run, it will search for the token T512T in the program and will display the number of occurrences and the corresponding line numbers.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

1. Call the SAP transaction SE24. Enter the class name CL_CI_CATEGORY_TEMPLATE in the class field and click the Copy button. The screenshot appears as follows:

   

2. Open the new class in the Change mode and the CONSTRUCTOR method in the Edit mode. Add the code given in the following screenshot:

   

3. Next, we will create a copy of the CL_CI_TEST_SCAN_TEMPLATE class having the name ZST9_CL_CI_CHECK. In the CONSTRUCTOR method, add the code given in the following screenshot:

   

4. Add the code in the run method of the Check class, which is given...