Problem
My selenium functional test is failing when I run using the Chrome driver, but works when using Firefox.
My Environment
- Mac OS X Mountain Lion
- Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94
- Build info: version: ‘2.2.1’, revision: ‘16551’, time: ‘2012-04-11 21:42:35’
- System info: os.name: ‘Mac OS X’, os.arch: ‘x86_64’, os.version: ‘10.8.2’, java.version: ‘1.6.0_35’
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
Steps to Reproduce
The exception occurs when using the Geb Grails example application from github.
Run the application using the Chrome driver:
grails -Dgeb.env=chrome test-app
The tests will begin to run, an instance of Chrome is successfully opened, but nothing happens afterwards. The Chrome browser isn’t directed to a url, it just sits there with a silly grin on its face. The below error is thrown in the console after a 15 second (or so) timeout.
The Error
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to either launch or connect to Chrome.
Please check that ChromeDriver is up-to-date. Using Chrome binary
at: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
My Debugging Steps
- Per this stackoverflow post, I’ve attempted various different versions of the driver with no effect.
- The tests are successful when using the Firefox driver (sadly, I must test with Chrome).
- Attempt to use the latest beta of chrome
Version 23.0.1271.40 beta. no luck. - Upgraded the geb and selenium versions in the test app to latest and greatest:
def gebVersion = "0.7.2" def seleniumVersion = "2.25.0"
Humble Thanks Section
Thanks for taking a look at this. I’d love to adopt geb, but its been an uphill battle to date.
Might be a silly answer but did you install the chrome driver? http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver
For Firefox, you don’t need to install a driver but for Chrome and IE, you do. That may be why your tests are running using FF and not chrome.
Good luck!