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

  <PropertyGroup>
    <AssemblyName>MyUX.Tests</AssemblyName>
     <!-- ... -->
    <PublishChromeDriver>True</PublishChromeDriver>
  </PropertyGroup>

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

  <Target Name="CopyChromeDriverToBin" BeforeTargets="AfterBuild">
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(ChromeDriverSrcPath)" DestinationFiles="$(TargetDir)$(ChromeDriverName)" SkipUnchangedFiles="true">
    </Copy>
  </Target>

Answer 2

Old question, new answer (for what it's worth): just install the Nuget package Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver. Chromedriver.exe will be in the directory bin/debug on the next build.

3rd party edit 2017-09

On this github page jsakamoto/nupkg-selenium-webdriver-chromedriver/ that after running Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver -Version 3.5.2 the chromedriver(.exe) lies below this folder

" {solution folder} /packages/Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver. {ver} /driver/ {platform}"

Answer 3

I've installed the nuget package in my c# console application and after build there was no 'chromedriver.exe' in bin/Debug folder. So I manually downloaded the chromedriver for my version of chrome and copied it to the directory manually and then it worked.

Answer 4

Since you're using C#, you should use the constructor overload for ChromeDriver that allows you to specify the path to the directory containing chromedriver.exe. To wit:

IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(@"C:\my\path\to\chromedriver\directory");