diff --git a/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/plugin.xml b/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/plugin.xml
index 63b999eeb98..cef76bf850c 100644
--- a/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/plugin.xml
+++ b/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/plugin.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@
             id="org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample.SuggestedParenthesisProblem"
             name="Suggested parenthesis around expression">
       </problem>
+      </checker>
+            <checker
+            class="org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample.NamingConventionFunctionChecker"
+            id="org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample.NamingConventionFunctionChecker"
+            name="NamingConventionFunctionChecker">
+      <problem
+            category="org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.categories.CodeStyle"
+            defaultSeverity="Warning"
+            id="org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample.NamingConventionFunctionProblem"
+            name="Name convention for function">
+      </problem>
       </checker>
    </extension>
 </plugin>
diff --git a/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/src/org/eclipse/cdt/codan/checkers/sample/NamingConventionFunctionChecker.java b/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/src/org/eclipse/cdt/codan/checkers/sample/NamingConventionFunctionChecker.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..147d0ca1108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codan/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers/src/org/eclipse/cdt/codan/checkers/sample/NamingConventionFunctionChecker.java
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2009 Alena Laskavaia 
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *    Alena Laskavaia  - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.AbstractCIndexChecker;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.ICheckerWithParameters;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.IProblem;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.IProblemParameterInfo;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.IProblemWorkingCopy;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ICElement;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ICElementVisitor;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ITranslationUnit;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
+
+/**
+ * @author Alena
+ * 
+ */
+public class NamingConventionFunctionChecker extends AbstractCIndexChecker
+		implements ICheckerWithParameters {
+	public static final String PARAM_KEY = "pattern";
+	private static final String ER_ID = "org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.sample.NamingConventionFunctionProblem";
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * 
+	 * @see
+	 * org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.ICIndexChecker#processUnit(org.eclipse
+	 * .cdt.core.model.ITranslationUnit)
+	 */
+	public void processUnit(ITranslationUnit unit) {
+		final IProblem pt = getProblemById(ER_ID, getFile());
+		try {
+			unit.accept(new ICElementVisitor() {
+				public boolean visit(ICElement element) throws CoreException {
+					if (element.getElementType() == ICElement.C_FUNCTION) {
+						String parameter = (String) pt.getParameter(PARAM_KEY);
+						Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(parameter);
+						String name = element.getElementName();
+						if (!pattern.matcher(name).find()) {
+		
+							reportProblem(ER_ID, getFile(), 1, // TODO: line number 
+									"Bad function name: " + name);
+						}
+						return false;
+					}
+					return true;
+				}
+			});
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * (non-Javadoc)
+	 * 
+	 * @see
+	 * org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.ICheckerWithParameters#initParameters
+	 * (org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model.IProblemWorkingCopy)
+	 */
+	public void initParameters(IProblemWorkingCopy problem) {
+		IProblemParameterInfo info = new IProblemParameterInfo() {
+			public String getUiInfo() {
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			public String getType() {
+				return "string";
+			}
+
+			public String getLabel() {
+				return "Name Pattern";
+			}
+
+			public String getKey() {
+				return PARAM_KEY;
+			}
+
+			public IProblemParameterInfo getElement(String key) {
+				return null;
+			}
+		};
+		problem.setParameterInfo(info);
+		problem.setParameter(PARAM_KEY, "^[a-z]"); // name starts with english
+													// lower case letter
+	}
+}