Driver executable must be set by the webdriver ie driver system property

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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

User · Accepted Answer

You will need InternetExplorer driver executable on your system. So download it from the hinted source (http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/) unpack it and place somewhere you can find it. In my example, I will assume you will place it to C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe

Then you have to set it up in the system. Here is the Java code pasted from my Selenium project:

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

Basically, you have to set this property before you initialize driver

User · Answer

For spring    File inputFile   new ClassPathResource    chrome  chromedriver exe   getFile    System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver  inputFile getCanonicalPath

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

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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

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