Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

Question

I am using Selenium for automating the tests. My application exclusively uses IE, it will not work on other Browsers.

Code:

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String sUrl = "http://www.google.co.in/";                             
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe");
        WebDriver oWebDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
        oWebDriver.get(sUrl);
        WebElement oSearchInputElem = oWebDriver.findElement(By.name("q")); // Use name locator to identify the search input field.
        oSearchInputElem.sendKeys("Selenium 2");
        WebElement oGoogleSearchBtn = oWebDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='btnG']"));  
        oGoogleSearchBtn.click();

        try {
            Thread.sleep(5000);
        } catch(InterruptedException ex) {
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        }
        oWebDriver.close();
    }    
}

And here is the error I am getting

The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ Jun 12, 2012 4:18:42 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute INFO: I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Software caused connection abort: recv failed Jun 12, 2012 4:18:42 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute

Can someone help me on this?

Rickard

Not sure why I can't post an answer for this, but you can also get around this by specifying the folder location within the PATH Environment value on the machine in question. This is handy should you want to or have to have the files stored in different places on different machines in different environments – Rimple

Replace the line System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe"); by System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe"); – Doctrinal

You have set property for chrome instead of IE. this is only the problem – Doctrinal

Answer 1

1. You will need InternetExplorer driver executable on your system. So download it from the hinted source (http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/) unpack it and place somewhere you can find it. In my example, I will assume you will place it to C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe

2. Then you have to set it up in the system. Here is the Java code pasted from my Selenium project:

   File file = new File("C:/Selenium/iexploredriver.exe");
   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
   WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
   

Basically, you have to set this property before you initialize driver

Bant

Side note - I am using Chrome, so the code will probably need some tweaks to it. Especially the init part of IE – Bant

I have already added the code in my program. Look at my code in the question. But I am not sure how to get rid of System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe"); WebDriver oWebDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); – Rickard

just replace the webdriver.chrome.driver with webdriver.ie.driverand it should work – Bant

My code: File file = new File("F:\\SoftwareDownload_Ripon\\WebDriver\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.24.2\\IEDriverServer.exe"); System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath()); WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); It works but the error is: INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request: The target server failed to respond org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died. What’s the way to solve the problem? – Doctrinal

Ripon - maybe write another question. Its hard to read from comment what you wanted to do – Bant

On my machine I had to start the IE driver server on a port and register it to Remoteweb Driver, then it worked. Merely setting the web driver path was not helping me. – Meisel

Answer 2

The error message says

"The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property;"

You are setting the path for the Chrome Driver with "webdriver.chrome.driver" property. You are not setting the file location when for InternetExplorerDriver, to do that you must set "webdriver.ie.driver" property.

You can set these properties in your shell, via maven, or your IDE with the -DpropertyName=Value

-Dwebdriver.ie.driver="C:/.../IEDriverServer.exe" 

You need to use quotes because of spaces or slashes in your path on windows machines, or alternatively reverse the slashes other wise they are the string string escape prefix.

You could also use

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:/.../IEDriverServer.exe"); 

inside your code.

Copywriter

Yes, this is the wrong. You have written the code as: System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe"); Please use "webdriver.chrome.driver" instead of "webdriver.chrome.driver" – Doctrinal

Answer 3

I just put the driver files directly into my project to not get any dependency to my local machine.

final File file = new File("driver/chromedriver_2_22_mac");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());

driver = new ChromeDriver();

Menswear

Answer 4

For spring :

File inputFile = new ClassPathResource("\\chrome\\chromedriver.exe").getFile();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",inputFile.getCanonicalPath());

Nambypamby

Answer 5

You will need have to download InternetExplorer driver executable on your system, download it from the source (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list) after download unzip it and put on the place of somewhere in your computer. In my example, I will place it to D:\iexploredriver.exe

Then you have write below code in your eclipse main class

   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "D:/iexploredriver.exe");
   WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

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