Setting the webdriver chrome driver system property

Question

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

    at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:199)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:109)

    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:32)

    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:137)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:296)

    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:88)

    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:120)

Answer 1

When u use Selenium 3.x you should download chromedriver.exe and save it in your machine. Then u have to add the absolute path of the chromedriver.exe using System.setProperty.

Make sure while you mention the absolute path of the chromedriver.exe through System.setProperty, you should either provide front slashes "/" or esacpe the back slases "\\".

Below code will help you:

public class first

{

    public static void main(String args[])

    {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:/your_directory/chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver dr1= new ChromeDriver(); ;

        dr1.get("http://www.google.com/");

    }

}