Gecko driver and Chrome driver location

[Srinivas Aditya]

Hi

I would request for help on where to place the firefox gecko and chromedriver.exe in my Serenity framework. 

Within my framework's user.dir folder, I created a folder called lib and copied the geckodriver.exe and chromedriver.exe into the lib folder. Is this going to work?

I was reading a post written by Serenity BDD expert who suggest placing them on System path as placing them in the project's user.dir reduces portability of the project. 

I don't understand why placing them in user.dir and having them as part of the project reduces portability. Kindly clarify.

I assume System Path mean Windows Path environment variable. Is it correct?

Regards

Srinivas

[ankit garg]

You can have  them anywhere just add the path in serenity.properties file something like below:

webdriver.chrome.driver=C:\\Softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe

Hope it will help!!

Regards,

Ankit

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[John Smart]

If the binaries are in your local directory, the tests will only run on your machine.

A more robust approach is to have your drivers in your source code, but have different drivers per OS. For example, in the serenities.properties file, put:

drivers.windows.webdriver.chrome.driver = src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/chromedriver.exe

drivers.mac.webdriver.chrome.driver = src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/chromedriver

drivers.linux.webdriver.chrome.driver = src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/chromedriver

Or in the serenity.conf file, put:

    drivers {

      windows {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/chromedriver.exe"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/geckodriver.exe"

      }

      mac {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/chromedriver"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/geckodriver"

      }

      linux {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/chromedriver"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/geckodriver"

      }

    }

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[ankit garg]

I tried above second approach of putting the paths  in the serenity.conf file, 

    drivers {

      windows {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/chromedriver.exe"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/geckodriver.exe"

      }

      mac {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/chromedriver"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/geckodriver"

      }

      linux {

        "webdriver.chrome.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/chromedriver"

        "webdriver.gecko.driver" = "src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/geckodriver"

      }

    }

I have updated the paths in above.However I am getting below error message:

Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver (The path to the chromedriver driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; 

[John Smart]

Are the files in those directories? Are you using the latest version of Serenoty?

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