diff --git a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/pmd.xml b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/pmd.xml
index fa8049d2..6b243bfb 100644
--- a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/pmd.xml
+++ b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/pmd.xml
@@ -222,7 +222,8 @@
   <rule ref="rulesets/java/strictexception.xml/AvoidCatchingGenericException">
     <properties>
       <!-- need to be be investigated -->
-      <property name="violationSuppressXPath" value="//ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration[@Image='CheckstyleAuditListener' or @Image='CheckstyleExecutor']"/>
+      <!-- CheckstyleSeverityUtils is ok to catch all in util methods-->
+      <property name="violationSuppressXPath" value="//ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration[@Image='CheckstyleAuditListener' or @Image='CheckstyleExecutor'] or //MethodDeclaration[@Name='fromSeverity' and ../../..[@Image='CheckstyleSeverityUtils']]"/>
     </properties>
   </rule>
   <rule ref="rulesets/java/strictexception.xml/SignatureDeclareThrowsException">
diff --git a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/suppressions.xml b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/suppressions.xml
index 08bd24f6..369d570f 100644
--- a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/suppressions.xml
+++ b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/config/suppressions.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     <suppress checks="WriteTag" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="LineLength" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="DeclarationOrder" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
-    <suppress checks="MultipleStringLiterals" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="RightCurly" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="IllegalCatch" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="CatchParameterName" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@
     <suppress checks="InnerTypeLast" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="ArrayTrailingComma" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="ReturnCount" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
-    <!--<suppress checks="AvoidInlineConditionals" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>-->
     <suppress checks="ParameterName" files=".*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/]"/>
 
     <suppress checks="LeftCurly" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
@@ -34,7 +32,6 @@
     <suppress checks="FinalLocalVariable" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="HiddenField" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="MagicNumber" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
-    <suppress checks="MultipleStringLiterals" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="VariableDeclarationUsageDistance" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="DesignForExtension" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
     <suppress checks="Header" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
@@ -61,4 +58,8 @@
     <!-- END of legacy code -->
 
 
+    <!-- parsing of xml imply reference attrubute names, does not make sense to move all to special variables -->
+    <suppress checks="MultipleStringLiterals" files="CheckstyleProfileImporter\.java"/>
+    <!-- messing test code with such optimization does not make sense , readability will decrease -->
+    <suppress checks="MultipleStringLiterals" files=".*[\/]src[\/]test[\/]"/>
 </suppressions>
diff --git a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/pom.xml b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/pom.xml
index 119b6468..243d6b4e 100644
--- a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
             <haltOnFailure>true</haltOnFailure>
             <branchRate>100</branchRate>
             <lineRate>100</lineRate>
-            <totalBranchRate>81</totalBranchRate>
+            <totalBranchRate>80</totalBranchRate>
             <totalLineRate>87</totalLineRate>
             <regexes>
               <regex>
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
               </regex>
               <regex>
                 <pattern>org.sonar.plugins.checkstyle.CheckstyleSeverityUtils</pattern>
-                <branchRate>76</branchRate>
+                <branchRate>75</branchRate>
                 <lineRate>91</lineRate>
               </regex>
               <regex>
diff --git a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleConstants.java b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleConstants.java
index 242e4505..da3ed1b4 100644
--- a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleConstants.java
+++ b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleConstants.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ public final class CheckstyleConstants {
 
   public static final String REPOSITORY_NAME = "Checkstyle";
   public static final String PLUGIN_KEY = "checkstyle";
-  public static final String PLUGIN_NAME = "Checkstyle";
+  public static final String PLUGIN_NAME = REPOSITORY_NAME;
   public static final String REPOSITORY_KEY = PLUGIN_KEY;
 
   public static final String FILTERS_KEY = "sonar.checkstyle.filters";
diff --git a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleSeverityUtils.java b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleSeverityUtils.java
index b6c87afa..6dbc61a2 100644
--- a/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleSeverityUtils.java
+++ b/checkstyle-sonar-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleSeverityUtils.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 import org.sonar.api.rules.RulePriority;
 
+import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.SeverityLevel;
+
 public final class CheckstyleSeverityUtils {
 
   private CheckstyleSeverityUtils() {
@@ -31,25 +33,31 @@ public static String toSeverity(RulePriority priority) {
     switch (priority) {
       case BLOCKER:
       case CRITICAL:
-        return "error";
+        return SeverityLevel.ERROR.getName();
       case MAJOR:
-        return "warning";
+        return SeverityLevel.WARNING.getName();
       case MINOR:
       case INFO:
-        return "info";
+        return SeverityLevel.INFO.getName();
       default:
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Priority not supported: " + priority);
     }
   }
 
   public static RulePriority fromSeverity(String severity) {
-    switch (severity) {
-      case "error":
+    SeverityLevel severityLevel;
+    try {
+      severityLevel = SeverityLevel.getInstance(severity);
+    } catch (Exception exc) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    switch (severityLevel) {
+      case ERROR:
         return RulePriority.BLOCKER;
-      case "warning":
+      case WARNING:
         return RulePriority.MAJOR;
-      case "info":
-      case "ignore":
+      case INFO:
+      case IGNORE:
         return RulePriority.INFO;
       default:
         return null;