diff --git a/plugins/stack-overflow/src/search/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem.test.tsx b/plugins/stack-overflow/src/search/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem.test.tsx
index 61e901591e..9e27149efb 100644
--- a/plugins/stack-overflow/src/search/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/stack-overflow/src/search/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/StackOverflowSearchResultListItem.test.tsx
@@ -15,9 +15,15 @@
  */
 
 import React from 'react';
-import { renderInTestApp } from '@backstage/test-utils';
+import {
+  MockAnalyticsApi,
+  renderInTestApp,
+  TestApiProvider,
+} from '@backstage/test-utils';
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 import { StackOverflowSearchResultListItem } from './StackOverflowSearchResultListItem';
+import { analyticsApiRef } from '@backstage/core-plugin-api';
 
 describe('<StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/>', () => {
   it('should render without exploding', async () => {
@@ -40,4 +46,36 @@ describe('<StackOverflowSearchResultListItem/>', () => {
       screen.getByText(/Customizing Spotify backstage UI/i).closest('a'),
     ).toHaveAttribute('href', 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7');
   });
+
+  it('should capture analytics for rank', async () => {
+    const analyticsSpy = new MockAnalyticsApi();
+
+    await renderInTestApp(
+      <TestApiProvider apis={[[analyticsApiRef, analyticsSpy]]}>
+        <StackOverflowSearchResultListItem
+          result={{
+            title: 'Customizing Spotify backstage UI',
+            text: 'Name of Author',
+            location: 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7',
+            answers: 0,
+            tags: ['backstage'],
+          }}
+          rank={1}
+        />
+        ,
+      </TestApiProvider>,
+    );
+
+    await userEvent.click(
+      screen.getByText(/Customizing Spotify backstage UI/i),
+    );
+
+    expect(analyticsSpy.getEvents()[0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: 'discover',
+      attributes: { to: 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7' },
+      context: { extension: 'App', pluginId: 'root', routeRef: 'unknown' },
+      subject: 'Customizing Spotify backstage UI',
+      value: 1,
+    });
+  });
 });