[#508] Making search also work with substrings - pairing w/ @pereiragislene

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/web-ui/app/js/search/results_highlighter.js b/web-ui/app/js/search/results_highlighter.js
index 2c7d1cc7..9e3ba167 100644
--- a/web-ui/app/js/search/results_highlighter.js
+++ b/web-ui/app/js/search/results_highlighter.js
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ define(
         var domIdent = data.where;
         if(this.attr.keywords) {
           _.each(this.attr.keywords, function (keyword) {
-            $(domIdent).highlightRegex(new RegExp('\\b' + keyword, 'i'), {
+            $(domIdent).highlightRegex(new RegExp(keyword, 'i'), {
               tagType:   'em',
               className: 'search-highlight'
             });
diff --git a/web-ui/test/spec/search/results_highlighter.spec.js b/web-ui/test/spec/search/results_highlighter.spec.js
index 523c3599..cfb61e9c 100644
--- a/web-ui/test/spec/search/results_highlighter.spec.js
+++ b/web-ui/test/spec/search/results_highlighter.spec.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 describeComponent('search/results_highlighter', function () {
   'use strict';
 
-  it('highlights only words that matches with the keywords given', function () {
+  it('highlights words or parts of words that match with the keywords given', function () {
     this.setupComponent('<div id="text">Any one seeing too many open bugs</div>');
 
     this.component.attr = {keywords: ['any']};
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ describeComponent('search/results_highlighter', function () {
 
     var highlightedWords = this.component.$node.find('.search-highlight').length;
 
-    expect(highlightedWords).toEqual(1);
+    expect(highlightedWords).toEqual(2);
   });
 
   it('resets highlights when a new search is performed', function() {