ChromeDriver does not exist in Selenium WebDriver C# test script

Question

I have come across a few people with the same issue that seemed to have solved the problem with System.addProperty(\"webdriver.chrome.driver\", \".../chromedriver.exe\");<

Answer 1

This was a challenging one to isolate - the clue is in the nuget source which contains Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver.targets - the targets requires an explicit property assignment so chromedriver.exe is never copied to vstest.console deployment directory. Here is the fix to add to your CSPROJ file:

Assign PublishChromeDriver Property in CSPROJ

  
    MyUX.Tests
     
    True
  

After this property is defined, a copy of chromedriver.exe will be copied to /bin for vstest.console. This fixes the error we were receiving:

chromedriver.exe file does not exist in the current directory or in a directory on the PATH environment variable. The driver can be downloaded at http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Alternative Approach - Force Copy in CSPROJ