protractor/selenium “could not find chromedriver at” (on Windows)

Question

I installed protractor following this tutorial and when i use webdriver-manager update it says:

selenium standalone is up to date.
chromedriver is up to date.
         


        

Answer 1

I followed that tutorial and had the same problem. The issue here was that you need to specify the path to your selenium jar and chrome driver exe in your protractor config file. Mine was installed globally in AppData folder so this is what mine protractor.confg.js file looks like:

exports.config = {

specs: [
    'test/e2e/**/*.js'
],

chromeDriver: 'C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver.exe',

seleniumServerJar: 'C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/protractor/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.40.0.jar',

baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9000/'

};

That seemed to do the trick.