Problems with loading chrome browser using selenium web driver

Question

i am not able to run my tests in chrome browser.i am using selenium-java 2.33.0 and java for coding.

Below are the steps

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome");
WebDriver driver  = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

it opens the chrome browser and throws the following error.

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException:     Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.32.0', revision: '6c40c187d01409a5dc3b7f8251859150c8af0bcb', time: '2013-04-09 10:39:28'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.7.4', java.version: '1.6.0_35'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:548)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:216)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:111)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:115)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:161)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:107)
at com.integration.RandomID.main(RandomID.java:14)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
Build info: version: '2.32.0', revision: '6c40c187d01409a5dc3b7f8251859150c8af0bcb', time: '2013-04-09 10:39:28'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.7.4', java.version: '1.6.0_35'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:165)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:62)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:527)
... 6 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [http://localhost:17036/status] to be available after 20018 ms
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:104)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:163)
... 8 more
Caused by: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedTimeoutException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:228)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:91)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
... 10 more

Where am i going wrong?

Thanks, Manoj

Answer 1

Do not use your Chrome binary that you browse the internet with. Download it from the Chromedriver website, and specify the path to that in your code.

This link has the solution explained in more detail: http://www.gjdb.nl/?p=214:

When you want to run Chrome on WebDriver for your Mac, then according to according to the site http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver you will need to specify the path to the browser to the following location: “/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome”.

So the Java code for creating a ChromeDriver instance will be:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome");
driver = new ChromeDriver();

When trying to run this I got the following exception.

org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.31.0', revision: '1bd294d185a80fa4206dfeab80ba773c04ac33c0', time: '2013-02-27 13:51:26'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.8.3', java.version: '1.6.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
...

This I fixed by using the ChromeDriver. Download your version on http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list, unzip it and use it as followed:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "<unzip location>/chromedriver");
driver = new ChromeDriver();