Issue Summary

The documentation Advanced searching - fields reference says that to return issues where the description contains the exact phrase, users should use quotation marks, but when a user searches using quotation marks, for example, text ~ "\"Number of tests \"", other issues which contains some expressions are returned also

Environment

Jira cloud

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Jira project and add issues to it
2. Add the following text to the description of different issues (use each sentence to each issue)
   • Number of tests made on this ticket
   • Number made tests
   • Number
   • tests
3. Perform a search in Jira using the following JQL query

text ~ "\"Number of tests \""

Expected Results

Only the issue containing the text "Number of tests made on this ticket" is returned

Actual Results

The issues containing the text below are returned:

• Number of tests made on this ticket
• Number made tests

Notes

Workaround

Currently, there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available