How to handle Platform Specific Keys (Ex: Keys.Control in windows not work in Mac OS ) while doing Cross Platform Testing?

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How to handle Platform Specific Keys (Ex: Keys.Control in windows not work in Mac OS ) while doing Cross Platform Testing?

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Hi Deepak,

WebDriver helps to identify the browser, browser version, and platform. If it’s running in Local then the below code gives the platform name

 Capabilities mycaps=((RemoteWebDriver) driverObj).getCapabilities();
 System.out.println(mycaps.getPlatformName());

If it’s running any cloud platform like LambdaTest, then it depends on the Capability values passed to the RemoteWebdriver Object. For Ex:

To execute test cases in LambdaTest Platform below are the Capabilities , ( you can copy the capabilities from here )

    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    capabilities.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");
    capabilities.setCapability("browserVersion", "99.0");
    HashMap<String, Object> ltOptions = new HashMap<String, Object>();
    ltOptions.put("user", USER_NAME;
    ltOptions.put("accessKey", AUTH_KEY;
    ltOptions.put("build", "your build name");
    ltOptions.put("name", "platformtest");
    ltOptions.put("platformName", "Windows 11");
   capabilities.setCapability("LT:Options", ltOptions);
   driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("https://" + username + ":" + authkey + hub), capabilities);

Now to retrieve the Plateform name from this driver Object,

 Map retrivedCaps=(HashMap)capabilities.getCapability("LT:Options")) 
//this Capability stored as Hasmap 
String currentRemotePlatform=retrivedCaps.get("platformName").toString(); //this statement fetch the value of current platform where selenium executes test cases.
//This if contion pass keys based on platform , 
 if (currentRemotePlatform.toLowerCase().contains("windows")) {
         element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a", Keys.DELETE));
   } else {
           element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.COMMAND, "a", Keys.DELETE));
 }

Hope this gives the idea, of how to perform actions based on the platform . To more about Selenium driver capabilities read

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