diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullCheck.java
index 4d1489004..331b9f2b4 100755
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullCheck.java
@@ -88,12 +88,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;
  */
 public class EqualsAvoidNullCheck extends Check
 {
-    // Decides whether string literals with optional assignment
-    // assignment should be checked to be on the left side of the
-    // equalsIgnoreCase comparison. The earlier version of this class
-    // checked only for equals() comparison.  This is added to support
-    // cases which may not want the equalsIgnoreCase() comparison for
-    // some reason (backward compatibility)
+    /** Whether to process equalsIgnoreCase() invocations. */
     private boolean mIgnoreEqualsIgnoreCase;
 
     @Override
@@ -236,10 +231,11 @@ public class EqualsAvoidNullCheck extends Check
 
     /**
      * Whether to ignore checking {@code String.equalsIgnoreCase(String)}.
-     * @param newValue whether to ignore checking
+     * @param aNewValue whether to ignore checking
      *    {@code String.equalsIgnoreCase(String)}.
      */
-    public void setIgnoreEqualsIgnoreCase(boolean newValue) {
-        mIgnoreEqualsIgnoreCase = newValue;
+    public void setIgnoreEqualsIgnoreCase(boolean aNewValue)
+    {
+        mIgnoreEqualsIgnoreCase = aNewValue;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullTest.java b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullTest.java
index ed1bb6c7d..38e677255 100755
--- a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/EqualsAvoidNullTest.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class EqualsAvoidNullTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport
             "73:27: String literal expressions should be on the left side of an equalsIgnoreCase comparison.",
             "75:27: String literal expressions should be on the left side of an equalsIgnoreCase comparison.",
             "77:27: String literal expressions should be on the left side of an equalsIgnoreCase comparison.",
-            "79:27: String literal expressions should be on the left side of an equalsIgnoreCase comparison."
+            "79:27: String literal expressions should be on the left side of an equalsIgnoreCase comparison.",
         };
         verify(checkConfig, getPath("coding" + File.separator + "InputEqualsAvoidNull.java"), expected);
     }