How to set path for executable IE drivers in Selenium WebDriver

6
votes

I am trying to run the following code on my machine (win XP & IE8)

public class bookie {                
  private WebDriver driver;        
  private String baseUrl;         
  private boolean acceptNextAlert = true;        
  private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();        

  @Before    
  public void setUp() throws Exception {    
    DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();    
    caps.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);    
    driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(caps);     
    baseUrl = "http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk/";     
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);    
  }

  @Test     
  public void testbookie() throws Exception {    
    System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "IEDriverServer.exe");    
    driver.get(baseUrl + "/");    
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Chapter1")).click();    
    driver.findElement(By.id("radiobutton")).click();    
    new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selecttype"))).selectByVisibleText("Selenium Core");    
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Home Page")).click();     
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Chapter2")).click();    
    driver.findElement(By.id("but1")).click();     
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Sibling Button']")).click();     
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Index")).click();      
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Chapter1")).click();     
    new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selecttype"))).selectByVisibleText("Selenium Grid");     
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Home Page")).click();      
    driver.quit();
  }

But the stack trace which i was provided is

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property; at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:105) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriverService.access$1(InternetExplorerDriverService.java:1) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriverService$Builder.build(InternetExplorerDriverService.java:230) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.setupService(InternetExplorerDriver.java:263) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:182) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:159) at bookie.setUp(bookie.java:19) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47) at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44) at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:24) at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

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javainternet-explorerselenium-webdriver
Since you have not specified an exact path for the IEDriver, it's going to look in your PATH variable and probably the current working directory. I'd also advise to remove the instability settings you've set. - Arran
Thankyou so much for your response Arran.. Everything is working fine now.. but still i would like to study/understand things more closely. so.. I understood most of what u said.. except for the "instability settings" part. would u please elaborate.. m a newbie.. - LeonarD
possible duplicate of Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property - Sebastian

2 Answers

3
votes

Place the driver in some location like C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe

Then

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

Below line should be first line of setUp() function

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "IEDriverServer.exe");
2
votes

Similar to the above solution but with Desired Capabilities

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:\\IEDriverServer.exe");
DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
dc.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);  //If IE fail to work, please remove this and remove enable protected mode for all the 4 zones from Internet options
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(dc);