Getting “The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property”though set correct path

Question

My code is very simple code:

WebDriver wd =new ChromeDriver();
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
                     "D:\\\\List         


        

Answer 1

If you are using IntelliJ IDE, then on IntelliJ without setting up within the 'Run > Edit configurations > VM Options' i will just meet this error:

Failed scenarios:
C:/Users/DATestAdmin/IdeaProjects/TestLogin/src/test/resources/login.feature:4 # Scenario: Successfully logging in

1 Scenarios (1 failed)
3 Steps (3 skipped)
0m0.194s

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

So once i've added the path to my chromedriver locally in 'Run > Edit configurations > VM Options':

-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\\Users\\This\\Is\\Where\\ChromeDriverIs\\chromedriver_win32.exe"

I'm now able to launch my Chrome browser successfully.

Answer 2

I was getting the same error, since chrome driver was not installed on my machine. Install the chrome driver. Follow: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

Answer 3

You should use Chocolatey as the Selenium wiki dictates. It will work straight away.

Windows users with Chocolatey installed: choco install chromedriver

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

Answer 4

You are setting chrome driver path incorrectly. Property must be set before WebDriver initialization.

Set property like this -

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\List_of_Jar\\chromedriver.exe")
WebDriver wd =new ChromeDriver();
String baseUrl = "https://www.google.com";
wd.get(baseUrl);" 

Answer 5

Try:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Demo2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "I:\\Bhasker-ShiroCode\\work\\chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("http://google.com");
    }

}

To avoid Error:

• webdriver.chrome.driver ( should be in small letters )
• have to give correct chromedriver.exe ( correct path )
• Import all Selenium jars under class Path

Answer 6

I totally agree with Murthi, but better is to set relative path to the driver, NOT the absolute.

Relative path looks like:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "src/test/resources/drivers/chromedriver.exe");

Abosulte: is the path to the driver in your PC.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\chromedriver.exe");

Why? It is a good practice to have driver inside your project, not just in your computer. Just find or create folder f.e. resources, inside resources create folder called f.e. drivers and import your driver/drivers exe files there.