How to set up Selenium with Chromedriver on Jenkins-hosted Grid

Question

I just make my frist steps with Selenium. I successfully set up a test (Firefox driver), running on Selenium grid on my Jenkins (using Jenkins-Selenium-Grid plugin). I also installed Chromdriver plugin and Chrome itself on the machine (Server2003 64bit) running Jenkins. Chrome is installed for all users (in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe). The Problem is: as soon i try to use the Chromedriver i get

UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid     address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

Since the Firefox test runs fine it must be a problem with "browser start"?! So the first question is: What is the default location for chrome binary that Chromdriver assumes? Second Question: How to fix this? Is there an Einvironment Property to set? Or could i simply set PATH to chrome.exe' location.

UPDATE: i dug around a bit, ithink i ran into this or that. is the any workaround for this issues?

Answer 1

You can use this as a node setup code:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.19.0.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\Java\chromedriver.exe" -role node -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register -browser "browserName=internet explorer,version=8,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=chrome,version=17,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=firefox,version=9,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=opera,version=11,platform=WINDOWS"

So there is direct point to chromedriver binary and it is a chromedriver.exe not the common chrome.exe. I had similar problem and it worked for me.