diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/Resources/SectionReplacementTest.txt b/dev/tests/verification/Resources/SectionReplacementTest.txt
index 5bdba2812..c4d738811 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/Resources/SectionReplacementTest.txt
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/Resources/SectionReplacementTest.txt
@@ -68,5 +68,7 @@ class SectionReplacementTestCest
 		$I->click("#stringLiteral1-" . PersistedObjectHandler::getInstance()->retrieveEntityField('createdData', 'firstname', 'test') . " .Doe" . msq("uniqueData"));
 		$I->click("#element .1#element .2");
 		$I->click("#element .1#element .{$data}");
+		$I->click("(//div[@data-role='slide'])[1]/a[@data-element='link'][contains(@href,'')]");
+		$I->click("(//div[@data-role='slide'])[1]/a[@data-element='link'][contains(@href,' ')]");
 	}
 }
diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Section/SampleSection.xml b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Section/SampleSection.xml
index 735c5fe7b..a560e2f1e 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Section/SampleSection.xml
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Section/SampleSection.xml
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@
         <element name="threeOneDuplicateParamElement" type="button" selector="#{{var1}}-{{var2}} .{{var1}} [{{var3}}]" parameterized="true"/>
         <element name="timeoutElement" type="button" selector="#foo" timeout="30"/>
         <element name="mergeElement" type="button" selector="#unMerge"/>
+        <element name="anotherTwoParamsElement" type="button" selector="(//div[@data-role='slide'])[{{arg1}}]/a[@data-element='link'][contains(@href,'{{arg2}}')]" parameterized="true"/>
     </section>
 </sections>
diff --git a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/SectionReplacementTest.xml b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/SectionReplacementTest.xml
index 9daef72cd..17aeb4d69 100644
--- a/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/SectionReplacementTest.xml
+++ b/dev/tests/verification/TestModule/Test/SectionReplacementTest.xml
@@ -50,5 +50,8 @@
 
         <click stepKey="selectorReplaceTwoParamElements" selector="{{SampleSection.oneParamElement('1')}}{{SampleSection.oneParamElement('2')}}"/>
         <click stepKey="selectorReplaceTwoParamMixedTypes" selector="{{SampleSection.oneParamElement('1')}}{{SampleSection.oneParamElement({$data})}}"/>
+
+        <click stepKey="selectorParamWithEmptyString" selector="{{SampleSection.anotherTwoParamsElement('1', '')}}"/>
+        <click stepKey="selectorParamWithASpace" selector="{{SampleSection.anotherTwoParamsElement('1', ' ')}}"/>
     </test>
 </tests>
diff --git a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
index c91ebaf5c..c50a51201 100644
--- a/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
+++ b/src/Magento/FunctionalTestingFramework/Test/Objects/ActionObject.php
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ private function matchParameterReferences($reference, $parameters)
         $resolvedParameters = [];
         foreach ($parameters as $parameter) {
             $parameter = trim($parameter);
-            preg_match_all("/[$'][\w\D]+[$']/", $parameter, $stringOrPersistedMatch);
+            preg_match_all("/[$'][\w\D]*[$']/", $parameter, $stringOrPersistedMatch);
             preg_match_all('/{\$[a-z][a-zA-Z\d]+}/', $parameter, $variableMatch);
             if (!empty($stringOrPersistedMatch[0])) {
                 $resolvedParameters[] = ltrim(rtrim($parameter, "'"), "'");