An angular-hotkeys styled API for triggering keyboard shortcuts in Protractor tests.
vanilla Protractor
// send ctrl+a to the webpage
browser.actions().keyDown(protractor.Key.CONTROL).sendKeys('a').perform();protractor-hotkeys
var hotkeys = require('protractor-hotkeys');
hotkeys.trigger('ctrl+a');
// testing the konami code Easter Egg on your site is easy
hotkeys
.trigger('up up down down')
.trigger('left right left right')
.trigger('b a enter');By default, all keyboard command sequences will target the <body> tag, but you can pass in a targetElement if you need to send keyboard shortcuts to someplace else on the page.
hotkeys.trigger('g g', { targetElement: $('.content-area') });This works on Firefox and Chrome on Mac. I only test the easiest, platform-independent shortcuts. Hopefully I have captured most of the testing surface with these.
- single characters (
'i','I','?') - single characters pressed in succession (
'g g','G G') - directional arrows (
'left','right') - function keys (
'f1','f10') - control, shift, and alt keys as modifiers (
'ctrl+up','shift+tab','alt+down') - uncommon keys (
'capslock','delete','backspace','space','home', 'pageup') - complex combinations of the above (Konami-code style stuff)
I make no promises about how this library will function using these keys. I did some local testing on a Mac, so the command key should work just as it does in angular-hotkeys (the 'mod' string can be used, but it is mapped to Selenium's META key). In the future, it may be worth it to use this library as a unifying interface between Linux, Mac, and Windows keyboard layouts.
If you are able to decide what keyboard shortcuts your app can use, please consider not using this "super" key. If you'd like to read up on it, this stackoverflow question has some good points. For the best experience, copy Github and stick with single character and shift-modifier shortcuts.