Steps to Launch the ChromeBrowser without using chromedriver.exe

Selenium WebDriver automation tool is mainly useful to run tests against multiple Browsers such as Chrome Browser,Firefox Browser,Internet Explorer Driver.Running the tests against multiple browsers is known as Cross Browser Testing.
To launch the Browser in Selenium WebDriver we need to set the path of the executable available in the laptop. Following that we have to instantiate the driver instance based on the Driver instance. In order to avoid these steps we can use the WebDriverManager class.

WebDriverManager

WebDriverManager allows to automate the management of the binary drivers (e.g. chromedriver, geckodriver, etc.) required by Selenium WebDriver.
Using WebDriverManager its not required to maintain the below lines of the code for launching the browser.
System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “/path/to/binary/chromedriver”);
System.setProperty(“webdriver.gecko.driver”, “/path/to/binary/geckodriver”);
System.setProperty(“webdriver.opera.driver”, “/path/to/binary/operadriver”);
System.setProperty(“phantomjs.binary.path”, “/path/to/binary/phantomjs”);
System.setProperty(“webdriver.edge.driver”, “C:/path/to/binary/MicrosoftWebDriver.exe”);
System.setProperty(“webdriver.ie.driver”, “C:/path/to/binary/IEDriverServer.exe”);

WebDriverManager Maven Depdendency

To use the WebDriverManager class ensure the following depedency is added in the maven project object model (pom.xml) file.

<dependency>
       <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
	<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
	<version>3.2.0</version>
</dependency>

<groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>

<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>

</dependency>

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Selenium WebDriver Code

Execute the below code in eclipse and verify the results.

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class GoogleTests {
 
	@Test
	public void verifyTitle()
	{
	 
		WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
	 	WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.get("http://www.total-qa.com");
		String actual = driver.getTitle();
		String expected="Total-QA - Future of Software Testing";
		Assert.assertEquals(actual,expected);
	}
}

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.testng.Assert;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class GoogleTests {

@Test

public void verifyTitle()

{

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("http://www.total-qa.com");

String actual = driver.getTitle();

String expected="Total-QA - Future of Software Testing";

Assert.assertEquals(actual,expected);

}

4 comments on “Steps to Launch the ChromeBrowser without using chromedriver.exe”

Vinay September 29, 2020 at 6:40 pm

I have added a WebDriverManager jar file into my project and i have modified the code but wen i run my pom.xml file
i am getting an error “org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process
null” could pls help me in solving this issue?
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-surefire-plugin
3.0.0-M3

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total-qa Post authorSeptember 29, 2020 at 8:06 pm

Can you try to do this configuration in the pom.xml org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-surefire-plugin

false

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1. Vinay September 29, 2020 at 10:23 pm
  
  Yes done still same issue
  I used this line inside configuration tag
  testFailureIgnore> false
  
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2. Vinay September 30, 2020 at 12:44 pm
  
  I tried doing that but still i am getting same error.
  
  Reply ↓

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