Chrome Browser Automation

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable does not exist:

When you try to learn selenium with java to automate your testing, the most common problems are

• java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable does not exist
• java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property.

Reason for the error:

Your system is not able to find the Chrome Driver executable.

Solution:

You can download the chrome driver executables from chromedriver/downloads

And, to solve the issue, you have to set the path(where you have copied the downloaded driver exe) to “webdriver.chrome.driver” key.

Note:

You have to set the driver’s property, after initializing driver object.

Example Program :

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

public class ChromeAutomation
  {
   public static void main(String[] args)
     {
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
         //initialize the driver object
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
         "/Users/chrome/chromedriver.exe⁩");
       //set the system property webdriver.chrome.driver  to the path
         driver.get("https://www.google.com");
          //mention the website url
             driver.quit();  //to close the browser
          }
      }

Conclusion

In this Article, you explored the introduction program in selenium with java for automation testing and also you learned about the environment set up for chrome browser. If you are MAC user, you can click “Finder” and select the “GO” menu and go the folder /usr/local/bin and copy the ChromeDriver.exe.By doing this you don’t need to set the path.