Worksoft SaaS supports a number of Keyboard actions to help you implement Keyboard operations within your automated tests. 

 

You can perform some of the keyboard actions

• Enter
• Alt+<any key>
• Shift+Tab
• Up arrow
• Down arrow
• Right arrow
• Left arrow

In this table below, you can see a listing of the commands grouped by the Keyboard action along with a high-level purpose of those commands.  Please note that these are supported within QaSCRIBE as well Worksoft SaaS application (Edit Test Script screen).

Keyboard Action	Purpose	Command(s)	Target	Value
Hit "Enter" key	To shift the focus from a particular element	sendKeysEnter	locator
ctrl+click	To select multiple options from a drop down	controlKeyDown
		click	locator for click
		controlKeyUp
Down Arrow	To press down arrow in the Keyboard	sendKeys	locator	Keys.ARROW_DOWN
Backspace	To clear the contents.Key "Backspace"	sendKeys	locator	Keys.BACK_SPACE
Esc	To Close a overlay on the screen."Esc"  key to perform close action.	sendKeys	locator	Keys.ESCAPE
Up Arrow	To Press 'Up' arrow in the Keyboard	sendKeys	locator	Keys.ARROW_UP
Right Arrow	Press right arrow	sendKeys	locator	Keys.ARROW_RIGHT
Left Arrow	Press left arrow	sendKeys	locator	Keys.ARROW_LEFT
shift+tab	Press shift and tab keys	sendKeys	locator	Keys.SHIFT,Keys.TAB
alt+"<Keys>"	To press Alt key and any key along with it. Such as Alt+N, Alt+P etc,.	altKeyDown
		sendKeys	locator for sendKeys	"Keys"( Example: N )
		altKeyUp