ChromeDriver error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

[bonigarcia]

ChromeDriver error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;

[britka]

Add

 ChromeDriverManager.getInstance().setup();

in Given step def

Example,

@Given("^I am on shop home page$")
public void i_am_on_shop_home_page() throws Throwable {

       ChromeDriverManager.getInstance().setup();

	driver = new ChromeDriver();
	driver.navigate().to("https://www.o2.co.uk/");
	
	}

[sriranjani48]

@1230priya - I have written using eclipse IDE.
Add External JAR's without fail. Always worked for me both with Firefox and ChromeDriver.
Try this.
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Example{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://google.com");
}
}

[steffy1]

@britka : I got it solved thought of sharing the solver : System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\Ampacattu\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe");

[dipan66]

It appears that testng annotations get invoked in a slightly different order - one that is confusing to many (including myself). It is:

    @BeforeSuite   
    @BeforeTest   
    @BeforeClass   
    @BeforeMethod   
    @Test   
    @AfterMethod   
    @AfterClass   
    @AfterTest   

Pushing ChromeDriverManager.getInstance().setup(); to @BeforeTest solved the issue. Thanks for a great utility 👍 👍 👍 !!

[steffy1]

@britka : I am getting an error for ChromeDriverManager.getInstance().setup();

Error:
ChromeDriverManager cannot be resolved

[sksvns]

Add External JAR's without fail and try this.
package com.java_testing;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {
	System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\subham\\Downloads\\selenium\\chrome_driver\\chromedriver.exe");
	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
	driver.get("https://google.com");
}

}

[DarcheleWebb]

Hi All,

We have been using the WebDriverManager for awhile now without any issues. For some reason after the latest version of Chrome 101.0.4951.41 installed, on one set of tests we are getting the error below:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver. The latest version can be downloaded from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

We have multiple test project setup the same way. Our GebConfig.Groovy is setup to setup the driver, as seen below:

'headless-chrome' {
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup()
driver = {
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions()
options.addArguments('disable-infobars')
options.setHeadless(true)
options.addArguments('no-sandbox')
options.addArguments('auth-server-whitelist=*rgare.net')
options.addArguments('disable-popup-blocking')
options.addArguments('window-size=1366,768')
new ChromeDriver(options)
}
}

We've never had to specify the location of the driver, using System.setProperty, in the past, that is the point of using the manager. I can't seem to figure out what the difference is between this project and others that work that are setup the same way. Any suggestions on troubleshooting?

[bonigarcia]

It seems the method with the annotation @BeforeClass is not being executed.

[steffy1]

Hi I am having issues with my chrome driver. Below is the error:

Failed scenarios:
C:/Users/Ampacattu/workspace/CucumberTel/src/cucumberFeatures/features.feature:3 # Scenario: To verify that the phones page is displayed

1 Scenarios (1 failed)
3 Steps (1 failed, 2 skipped)
0m0.475s

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:738)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:111)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:32)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:137)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:302)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:88)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:124)
at cucumber.telf.TelfRunner.i_am_on_shop_home_page(TelfRunner.java:27)
at ?.Given I am on shop home page(C:/Users/Ampacattu/workspace/CucumberTel/src/cucumberFeatures/features.feature:4)

The following is my runner file:
package cucumber.telf;

import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;
import cucumber.api.java.en.Then;
import cucumber.api.java.en.When;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
plugin ={"pretty","json/target/"},
features={"src/cucumbertef/"}
)
public class TelfRunner {

WebDriver driver = null;

@Given("^I am on shop home page$")
public void i_am_on_shop_home_page() throws Throwable {

	driver = new ChromeDriver();
	driver.navigate().to("https://www.o2.co.uk/");
	
	}

@When("^I click on phones$")
public void i_click_on_phones() throws Throwable {
  
	driver.findElement(By.id("pn1"));
}

@Then("^Phones listing page should be displayed$")
public void phones_listing_page_should_be_displayed() throws Throwable {
	
	driver.findElement(By.id("pn1")).click();
  
}

}

Please help

[sagunpandey]

@steffy1 If you manually set the System Property to provide chrome driver location path, what is the benefit of using this library. You can download the we drivers for all browsers and set the system property. Doesn't serve the purpose.

[1230priya]

Ihave similar error , i have set up all the required jar files and chrome location set up
but still getting the error ....I am a beginner, please help me solve this issue .

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:847)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:124)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:33)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:139)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:335)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:89)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:123)
at chrome.main(chrome.java:11)

simple code ...
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class chrome {

public static void main(String[] args) 
{
	
	
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
 WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
 
 driver.get("www.gmail.com");
 
	       
     	}

}

[BhupendraNikam01]

Hi guys I am facing the same issue:
Error:-
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:199) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:109) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:32) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:137) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:296) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:88) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:116) at
com.w2a.base.TestBase.setUp(TestBase.java:69)
org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)

What I am doing wrong??
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;

public class TestBase {

public static WebDriver driver;
public static Properties config = new Properties();
public static Properties OR = new Properties();
public static FileInputStream fis;


@BeforeSuite
public void setUp()
{
	if (driver==null)
	{
		
		try {
			fis = new FileInputStream("C:\\Users\\bhupendra.nikam\\eclipse\\LearnAutomation\\LearnJava\\DataDrivenFramework\\src\\test\\resources\\properties\\Config.properties");
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			config.load(fis);
		} catch (IOException e1) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}
		
		try {
			fis = new FileInputStream("C:\\Users\\bhupendra.nikam\\eclipse\\LearnAutomation\\LearnJava\\DataDrivenFramework\\src\\test\\resources\\properties\\OR.properties");
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			OR.load(fis);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		
if(config.getProperty("browser").equals("chrome"))
{
	System.getProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\src\\test\\resources\\executables\\chromedriver.exe");
	//System.setProperty("websriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\A Software\\Chrome13-08\\chromedriver.exe");
	driver = new ChromeDriver();
}
		
else if(config.getProperty("browser").equals("firefox"))
{
	System.getProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\src\\test\\resources\\executables\\firefoxdriver.exe");
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}
		
	  driver.get(config.getProperty("testsiteurl"));
	  driver.manage().window().maximize();
	  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Integer.parseInt(config.getProperty("inplicit.wait")), TimeUnit.SECONDS);
		
		
}
	
	
}



@AfterSuite
public void tearDown()
{
	if(driver!=null)
	driver.quit();
}

}

[Abishek-godsu]

HI ,
I am getting the below error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Please find my code:
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class demo {

public static void main(String[] args) {
	// TODO Auto-generated method stub

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
System.setProperty("WebDriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\Abishek R\Downloads.exe");
driver.get("www.google.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
}
}

Please help

[Amr-Test-22]

Hello, When I run the Test NG give me this error:
FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeTest OpenURL
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
at org.openqa.selenium.internal.Require$StateChecker.nonNull(Require.java:247)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:142)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:37)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:222)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:405)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:119)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:105)
at FindingElements.FindElementByID.OpenURL(FindElementByID.java:18)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:132)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:61)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(ConfigInvoker.java:366)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurations(ConfigInvoker.java:320)
at org.testng.TestRunner.invokeTestConfigurations(TestRunner.java:617)
at org.testng.TestRunner.beforeRun(TestRunner.java:607)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:578)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:384)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:378)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:337)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:286)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:53)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:96)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1218)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1140)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1069)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1037)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:115)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)

[sindhuabraham]

Hi All,

I am relatively new to selenium. I got the same issue as above and the problem was that I have created WebDriver object before setting SystemProperty. When I have written the code in the below order the problem solved. Hope it will be useful for someone. Thanks!

package SS;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class SS {
public static WebDriver driver = null;
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Users/haiso/eclipse-workspace2/SS/resources/chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("https://www.deepl.com/en/translator");
}
}