How to set path chrome driver in robot framework?

8
votes

Now, I set path variable 

path  : D:..;C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
Chrome : C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe

I can call open Chrome in command line.

But error when run in RIDE

FAIL : WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed (Driver info: chromedriver=2.13.307647 (5a7d0541ebc58e69994a6fb2ed930f45261f3c29),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86)

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google-chrometestingpathrobotframeworkselenium-chromedriver

3 Answers

11
votes

You need chromeDriver not Chrome. Start by downloading the chrome driver.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

Put it somewhere that your test can access (for example a bin folder relative to your tests).

Now you need to set the environment variable to point the chrome driver.

You can do it from outside the test (for example, as a global setting for your desktop), or from your test setup.

From outside the test

Just set the environment variable webdriver.chrome.driver to point the executable.

(Control Panel -> System -> Edit the system environment variables)

From inside the test

If you're using jython, you need to create a small java library to do that for you 

public void setSystemProperty(String key, String value) {
    System.getProperties().setProperty(key,value);
}

And use it from your test

Prepare Selenium Driver
  Set System Property  webdriver.chrome.driver    ${EXECDIR}/chromedriver.exe

If you're using Python, you can use the OperatingSystem library

*** Settings ***
Library  OperatingSystem
Suite Setup  Setup chromedriver
*** Keywords ****
Setup chromedriver
  Set Environment Variable  webdriver.chrome.driver  ${EXECDIR}/chromedriver.exe
3
votes

Download Chromedriver.exe from its official website and keep this .exe file in 'C:\Python27\Scripts' directory.Now mention this path as your environment variable eg. C:\Python27\Scripts\chromedriver.exe Now Restart your computer and execute your test case.

0
votes

In case you need to run your tests against a specific browser version, e.g. because your customers have a managed environment and all use the same browser version at a time, you can maintain the browser drivers in your source code repository and add the respective folder to the PATH during test execution.

My acceptance test folder 'atest' contains a 'bin' folder which contains the browser drivers:

atest
  bin
    chromedriver.exe
    geckodriver.exe
    ...

Now I can add it to the PATH variable during Suite Setup:

*** Settings ***
Library          OperatingSystem
Suite Setup      Include Browser Drivers


*** Keywords ***
Include Browser Drivers
    Append To Environment Variable    PATH    ${EXECDIR}/bin