Selenium is not able to launch the IE.

Question

Selenium is not able to launch the IE.

10:56:25,005 INFO [org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler] Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*iexploreproxy, http://192.168.132.105:8080/, ] on session null 10:56:25,005 INFO [org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory] creating new remote session 10:56:25,005 INFO [org.openqa.selenium.server.BrowserSessionFactory] Allocated session 9fa93fe865904e3da895c91a86ebdcb0 for http://192.168.132.105:8080/, launching... 10:56:25,005 INFO [org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.WindowsProxyManager] Modifying registry settings... 10:56:25,474 INFO [org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher] Launching Internet Explorer...

After the Internet Explorer... it won't respond. Please help me in fixing this issue.

Wigeon

Answer 1

How are you starting the hub and the node?

For the node, this worked for me:

1. Download InternetExplorerDriver from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list to c:\Selenium
2. Download Selenium stand alone server(selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar) from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list to c:\Selenium
3. Start the node: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar -role webdriver -hub http://192.168.1.248:4444/grid/register -browser browserName="internet explorer",version=8.0,platform=WINDOWS -Dwebdriver.internetexplorer.driver=c:\Selenium\InternetExplorerDriver.exe

I am using OSX to run the hub, Virtual Box to run Windows 7 Home and the IE hub.

Also, make sure that the Protected Mode settings are the same for all zones.

Ahvenanmaa

Do you need the internet explorer driver for selenium grid tests? I can run my test in IE without it (using selenium webdriver, grid 2) – Mastigophoran

been looking for the -browser syntax for quite some time. Thank you so much for adding it to your "starting the node". – Doublespace

Answer 2

Lets consider Hub running on Machine-A whose IPAddress is = 192.168.10.10 default port no. 4444.
Lets Node running on Machine-B whose IPAddress is = 192.168.10.20.
Lets consider operating System on HUB and Node is installed on drive C:\ (C-Drive). 
create a folder named selenium on c:\ as c:\selenium.
keep binaries of IExplorer.exe, chromeDriver.exe and Selenium-Standalone-server2.10.0.jar. (on both machine A and B).

configuring HUB on Machine-A
1- open Command prompt 
2- go to folder selenium using 
         i type cd\ then enter
         ii  type c:  then enter
         iii c:> cd selenium then enter
3- java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar -role hub

Configuring NOde on Machine - B
1- open Command prompt 
2- go to folder selenium using 
         i type cd\ then enter
         ii  type c:  then enter
         iii c:> cd selenium then enter
3- java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.20.0.jar -role node -hub http://192.168.10.10:4444/grid/register  -port 5560 -browser  browserName=internt explore,maxInstance=4,version=10,platform=WINDOWS  -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=c:\selenium\IEDriver.exe

your node will get register with Hub on port 5560.

Test Case will become as- 

package testCase;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

public class Avinash_Internet_Explore 
{

    WebDriver driver;
    String baseUrl , nodeUrl;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception 
    {
        nodeUrl = "http://192.168.10.20:5560/wd/hub"; //Machine-A IPAdress  
                                                     with Port No.          

        DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(nodeUrl),capability);
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.MINUTES);
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception 
    {
        driver.quit();
    }

    @Test
    public void test() throws InterruptedException
    {

        driver.get("https://www.google.co.in");     
        Thread.sleep(3000);     
        driver.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail")).click();
        Thread.sleep(3000); 
        driver.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys("[email protected]");

        driver.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("********");

        driver.findElement(By.id("signIn")).click();

        Thread.sleep(6000);
    }

}

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