[java] Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

I am using Selenium for automating the tests. My application exclusively uses IE, it will not work on other Browsers.

Code:

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String sUrl = "http://www.google.co.in/";                             
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe");
        WebDriver oWebDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
        oWebDriver.get(sUrl);
        WebElement oSearchInputElem = oWebDriver.findElement(By.name("q")); // Use name locator to identify the search input field.
        oSearchInputElem.sendKeys("Selenium 2");
        WebElement oGoogleSearchBtn = oWebDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='btnG']"));  
        oGoogleSearchBtn.click();

        try {
            Thread.sleep(5000);
        } catch(InterruptedException ex) {
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        }
        oWebDriver.close();
    }    
}

And here is the error I am getting

The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ Jun 12, 2012 4:18:42 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute INFO: I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Software caused connection abort: recv failed Jun 12, 2012 4:18:42 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute

Can someone help me on this?

For spring :

File inputFile = new ClassPathResource("\\chrome\\chromedriver.exe").getFile();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",inputFile.getCanonicalPath());

I just put the driver files directly into my project to not get any dependency to my local machine.

final File file = new File("driver/chromedriver_2_22_mac");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());

driver = new ChromeDriver();

The error message says

"The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property;"

You are setting the path for the Chrome Driver with "webdriver.chrome.driver" property. You are not setting the file location when for InternetExplorerDriver, to do that you must set "webdriver.ie.driver" property.

You can set these properties in your shell, via maven, or your IDE with the -DpropertyName=Value

-Dwebdriver.ie.driver="C:/.../IEDriverServer.exe" 

You need to use quotes because of spaces or slashes in your path on windows machines, or alternatively reverse the slashes other wise they are the string string escape prefix.

You could also use

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:/.../IEDriverServer.exe"); 

inside your code.

You will need have to download InternetExplorer driver executable on your system, download it from the source (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list) after download unzip it and put on the place of somewhere in your computer. In my example, I will place it to D:\iexploredriver.exe

Then you have write below code in your eclipse main class

   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "D:/iexploredriver.exe");
   WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();