Run Webdriver script in Google Chrome

This post explains you how to run your webdriver script in google chrome..

Firefox Browser:
driver=new FirefoxDriver();  --it will work and will launch your firefox browser,

Google Chrome:

driver= new Chromedriver() --- it will throw an error.

Error:


FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeClass beforeClass
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list

To over come this we need to download the chrome driver.exe and we have to specify the apth of chrome driver in the script

Download path:
http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list

take the latest exe file. see the below image

save the chrome driver in a folder and you need to specify the path of driver in your webdriver script.

Below is the Sample code:

package testng;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ChromedriverTest {

public WebDriver driver;
  @BeforeClass
  public void beforeClass() {
// Create chrome driver instance...
 System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\xxx\\Jar\\chromedriver.exe");
 driver=new ChromeDriver();
  }


  @Test
  public void testChromedriverTest() throws Exception {
 driver.navigate().to("http://bing.com");
 Thread.sleep(5000);
  }

  @AfterClass
  public void afterClass() {
 driver.quit();
  }

}

Use the above code your script will run in google chrome.