Selenium driver location search path

Question

I'm trying to set up selenium tests in nCrunch which outputs the tests to its own temp folder.

I'm getting the following error when I create the driver (new PhantomJSDriver()):

OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException : The PhantomJS.exe file does not exist in the current directory or in a directory on the PATH environment variable.

However I have checked and PhantomJS.exe does exist in the current directory (\bin\debug).

I then tried using new PhantomJSDriver(".\\") which should be the current directory and that does work.

What is the "current directory" Selenium is referring to in this message?

Alcazar

A very useful tool for this type of scenario is Microsoft's process explorer: technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Set a breakpoint just before the new(), turn on process explorer, and step over the error. Process Explorer will show where in the filesystem it looked – Vellum

You can look into the source code to determine the search path logic. – Fault

@Luke McGregor Please check the following post, it's in JAVA however might help you. #42273903 – Blowfly

Answer 1

Rather than assuming ".\\", get the current working working directory by Directory.GetCurrentDirectory or System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory . Take a look at Get current folder path.

Paymar

Answer 2

new PhantomJSDriver() will use your bin folder

if PhantomJS.exe does not exist there, try to find where it's located and insert full path in constructor

new PhantomJSDriver("real_path_to_PhantomJS.exe")

Roush