diff --git a/community-guitests/testSrc/com/intellij/testGuiFramework/tests/community/focus/SearchEverywhereFocusTest.kt b/community-guitests/testSrc/com/intellij/testGuiFramework/tests/community/focus/SearchEverywhereFocusTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5db741b8b614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community-guitests/testSrc/com/intellij/testGuiFramework/tests/community/focus/SearchEverywhereFocusTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+// Copyright 2000-2018 JetBrains s.r.o. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+package com.intellij.testGuiFramework.tests.community.focus
+
+import com.intellij.testGuiFramework.fixtures.IdeFrameFixture
+import com.intellij.testGuiFramework.impl.GuiTestCase
+import com.intellij.testGuiFramework.impl.GuiTestUtilKt
+import com.intellij.testGuiFramework.tests.community.CommunityProjectCreator
+import com.intellij.testGuiFramework.util.Key.ESCAPE
+import org.fest.swing.core.SmartWaitRobot
+import org.fest.swing.exception.ComponentLookupException
+import org.fest.swing.timing.Pause
+import org.junit.Assert
+import org.junit.Test
+import java.awt.Container
+import java.awt.Window
+import java.awt.event.InputEvent
+import javax.swing.JLabel
+
+class SearchEverywhereFocusTest : GuiTestCase() {
+
+  private val typedString = "here is a demo text"
+  private val expectedText = typedString
+  private val searchWindowLabelText = "Search Everywhere:"
+
+  @Test
+  fun testGoToClassFocus() {
+    CommunityProjectCreator.createCommandLineProject()
+    Pause.pause(1000)
+    ideFrame {
+      focusOnEditor()
+      doubleShift(50)
+      fastType(typedString)
+      Pause.pause(500)
+      checkTextInSearchWindow(findSearchWindowTwice(), expectedText)
+      shortcut(ESCAPE)
+      focusOnEditor()
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  private fun GuiTestCase.doubleShift(delayBetweenMs: Int = 0) {
+    val smartRobot = robot() as SmartWaitRobot
+    smartRobot.fastPressAndReleaseModifiers(InputEvent.SHIFT_MASK)
+    if (delayBetweenMs > 0) Pause.pause(delayBetweenMs.toLong())
+    smartRobot.fastPressAndReleaseModifiers(InputEvent.SHIFT_MASK)
+  }
+
+  private fun IdeFrameFixture.focusOnEditor() { editor { moveTo(89) } }
+
+  private fun GuiTestCase.fastType(stringToType: String) {
+    val smartRobot = this@fastType.robot() as SmartWaitRobot
+    smartRobot.fastTyping(stringToType)
+  }
+
+  private fun GuiTestCase.checkTextInSearchWindow(searchWindow: Container, expectedText: String) {
+    with(this) {
+      val textfield = textfield("", searchWindow, this.defaultTimeout)
+      Assert.assertEquals(textfield.target().text, expectedText)
+    }
+  }
+
+  private fun findSearchWindowTwice() : Container {
+    return try {
+      findSearchWindow(searchWindowLabelText)
+    }
+    catch (cle: ComponentLookupException) {
+      this.robot().waitForIdle()
+      findSearchWindow(searchWindowLabelText)
+    }
+  }
+
+  private fun findSearchWindow(labelText: String): Container {
+    fun checkWindowContainsEnterClassName(it: Window) = GuiTestUtilKt.findAllWithBFS(it,
+                                                                                     JLabel::class.java).firstOrNull { it.text?.contains(labelText) == true } != null
+    return Window.getWindows()
+             .filterNotNull()
+             .firstOrNull { checkWindowContainsEnterClassName(it) } ?: throw ComponentLookupException(
+      "Unable to find search window")
+  }
+
+}
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diff --git a/platform/testGuiFramework/src/org/fest/swing/core/SmartWaitRobot.kt b/platform/testGuiFramework/src/org/fest/swing/core/SmartWaitRobot.kt
index 1aeccae54016..dfea7d3a7c86 100644
--- a/platform/testGuiFramework/src/org/fest/swing/core/SmartWaitRobot.kt
+++ b/platform/testGuiFramework/src/org/fest/swing/core/SmartWaitRobot.kt
@@ -138,6 +138,13 @@ class SmartWaitRobot : BasicRobot(null, ExistingHierarchy()) {
     fastReleaseModifiers(updatedModifiers)
   }
 
+  fun fastPressAndReleaseModifiers(vararg modifiers: Int) {
+    val unifiedModifiers = InputModifiers.unify(*modifiers)
+    fastPressModifiers(unifiedModifiers)
+    Pause.pause(50)
+    fastReleaseModifiers(unifiedModifiers)
+  }
+
   fun fastPressAndReleaseKeyWithoutModifiers(keyCode: Int) {
     fastPressKey(keyCode)
     fastReleaseKey(keyCode)