diff --git a/.github/jobs/configure_sonarqube.sh b/.github/jobs/configure_sonarqube.sh
index 929b03fa..47b4f983 100755
--- a/.github/jobs/configure_sonarqube.sh
+++ b/.github/jobs/configure_sonarqube.sh
@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ fi
 
 # Configure the sonar-project.properties
 [ -e $SONAR_PROPERTIES ] && rm $SONAR_PROPERTIES
-sed -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_KEY|METdataio-GHA|" \
-    -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_NAME|METdataio GHA|" \
-    -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|$SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|" \
+sed -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|$SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_HOST_URL|$SONAR_HOST_URL|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_TOKEN|$SONAR_TOKEN|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_BRANCH_NAME|$SOURCE_BRANCH|" \
diff --git a/internal/scripts/sonarqube/run_sonarqube.sh b/internal/scripts/sonarqube/run_sonarqube.sh
index 49fea266..344a0e89 100755
--- a/internal/scripts/sonarqube/run_sonarqube.sh
+++ b/internal/scripts/sonarqube/run_sonarqube.sh
@@ -118,9 +118,7 @@ SONAR_PROPERTIES=sonar-project.properties
 
 # Configure the sonar-project.properties
 [ -e $SONAR_PROPERTIES ] && rm $SONAR_PROPERTIES
-sed -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_KEY|METdataio_NB|" \
-    -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_NAME|METdataio Nightly Build|" \
-    -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|$SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|" \
+sed -e "s|SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|$SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_HOST_URL|$SONAR_HOST_URL|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_TOKEN|$SONAR_TOKEN|" \
     -e "s|SONAR_BRANCH_NAME|${1}|" \
diff --git a/internal/scripts/sonarqube/sonar-project.properties b/internal/scripts/sonarqube/sonar-project.properties
index 8e3c4d05..13b0d431 100644
--- a/internal/scripts/sonarqube/sonar-project.properties
+++ b/internal/scripts/sonarqube/sonar-project.properties
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
-sonar.projectKey=SONAR_PROJECT_KEY
-sonar.projectName=SONAR_PROJECT_NAME
+# Project and source code settings
+sonar.projectKey=METdataio
+sonar.projectName=METdataio
 sonar.projectVersion=SONAR_PROJECT_VERSION
-
+sonar.branch.name=SONAR_BRANCH_NAME
 sonar.sources=METdbLoad,METreadnc,METreformat
-
-# The build-wrapper output dir
-
-# Encoding of the source files
+sonar.coverage.exclusions=**/test/*
 sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
 
-#----- Default SonarQube server
+# SonarQube server
 sonar.host.url=SONAR_HOST_URL
-
 sonar.token=SONAR_TOKEN
-sonar.branch.name=SONAR_BRANCH_NAME