This version of ChromeDriver has not been tested with Chrome version 79 error running protractorE2E tests with ChromeDriver Chrome Selenium

Question

Those are my settings:

.gitlab-ci.yml

image: node
stages:
    - test
tests:
    stage: test
    before_script:
        # Add Google Chro         


        

Answer 1

This error message...

Starting ChromeDriver 78.0.3904.70
.
[1576595033.109][WARNING]: This version of ChromeDriver has not been tested with Chrome version 79.
.
15:03:53.323 INFO [RemoteSession$Factory.lambda$performHandshake$0] - Started new session 26b7b655c1318cbcde9cfb69871f56ad (org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService)
(node:15719) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session.

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Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chromedriver=78.0
• Release Notes of chromedriver=78.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 78

• You are using chrome= 79.0
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v79.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 79

So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver v78.0 and the Chrome Browser v79.0

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Solution

Ensure that:

• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v79.0 level.
• Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 79.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v79.0 release notes)
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.

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Reference

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:

• How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium