diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2ac6e2b5..b2ec7e23 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ vendor
 /.settings
 phpword.ini
 /.buildpath
+/.scannerwork
 /.project
 /nbproject
 /.php_cs.cache
diff --git a/phpunit.xml.dist b/phpunit.xml.dist
index 17fcfa39..4a882446 100644
--- a/phpunit.xml.dist
+++ b/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -23,5 +23,6 @@
     <logging>
         <log type="coverage-html" target="./build/coverage" />
         <log type="coverage-clover" target="./build/logs/clover.xml" />
+        <log type="junit" target="./build/logs/logfile.xml"/>
     </logging>
 </phpunit>
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diff --git a/sonar-project.properties b/sonar-project.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7741cfb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sonar-project.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# must be unique in a given SonarQube instance
+sonar.projectKey=phpoffice:phpword
+# this is the name and version displayed in the SonarQube UI. Was mandatory prior to SonarQube 6.1.
+sonar.projectName=PHPWord
+sonar.projectVersion=0.16
+ 
+# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Replace "\" by "/" on Windows.
+# This property is optional if sonar.modules is set. 
+sonar.sources=src
+sonar.tests=tests
+sonar.php.coverage.reportPaths=build/logs/clover.xml
+sonar.php.tests.reportPath=build/logs/logfile.xml
+
+# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
+#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
+
+sonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000
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