Selenium test fails on build server with “No response from server” error

Question

I have a simple Selenium test within VS2010 test project as follows.

[TestMethod]  
public void MyTestInIE8()  
{  
    IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplo         


        

Answer 1

The Internet Explorer driver requires some configuration of IE as documented in the project wiki. You will need to make sure that the browser is configured properly on your build server.

The Selenium project has been updated recently to throw a more useful error in the case where the IE driver isn't configured properly. Updating to 2.0rc2 will give you this more useful error.