Running Selenium Tests with ChromeDriver on Linux

Some of the pre-requisites has to be setup to execute the Selenium WebDriver tests with chromedriver on Linux

Download the following Softwares before starting to write tests in eclipse.

Download Google Chrome – Chrome for Linux
Download ChromeDriver – ChromeDriver for Linux

Install the Google Chrome on the Linux ennvironment by using the following methods:

Double click or use rpm command if the package is “.rpm” (am currently using Fedora) to install the google chrome
Use apt-get / YUM command to download and then install the package for different Linux flavors accordingly

Executing ChromeDriver Server:

Inside /home/${user} – create a new directory “ChromeDriver”
Unzip the downloaded chromedriver into this folder
Using chmod +x filename or chmod 777 filename make the file executable
Go to the folder using cd command
Execute the chrome driver with ./chromedriver command
Now the chromedriver will start executing in the 9515 port

[seetaram@Linux chromedriver]$ ./chromedriver
Started ChromeDriver
port=9515
version=14.0.836.0

Above is the output of the chromedriver server executing in Linux terminal.

After the above is accomplished, try to setup the test on the eclipse

Download the Selenium server 2.0
Download JUnit
Unzip both the files and configure them to build path in the eclipse
Write the test code as below in the Eclipse – Java file

package com.selftechy.wdriver;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;

import org.junit.*;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

public class ChromeRemoteDriver {
    
    public static void main(String []args) throws MalformedURLException{
        new DesiredCapabilities();
            URL serverurl = new URL("http://localhost:9515");
            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
            WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(serverurl,capabilities);
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
        WebElement searchEdit = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        searchEdit.sendKeys("Selftechy on google");
        searchEdit.submit();

    }
}

Now, try to execute the code by clicking Run As –> JUnit Test. It should be executing the test to the completion.

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afam

April 25, 2013 at 12:03 am

Thank you very much. That was great tip. It pointed me to the right direction. My only ask is to add more detail on how to configure and setup the chromedriver on eclipse. I believe you have to set the system property but how.

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Manoj

October 7, 2013 at 7:18 am

Your last line creating confusion “try to execute the code by clicking Run As –> JUnit Test. It should be executing the test to the completion”. Change it as “Java Application” or change the code in junit.

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- seetaram
  
  October 8, 2013 at 9:21 am
  
  You are misunderstanding… If you are trying to run JUnit test then you should use RunAs –> JUnit Test, If it is a Java program with main() method then you should use “Java Application”
  
  Reply
Sachin

September 26, 2014 at 7:36 am

Thanks for this. But i am getting an error that The driver is not executable, when i try to run the code on bamboo.

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Divya

December 14, 2017 at 8:09 am

Hi,
Chrome : version : 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromedriver : 2.34
Selenium server : 3.7.1

still unable to execute, getting the below error
Could someone please help me in resolving the issue. struggling and searching for answer from many days.

Starting ChromeDriver 2.34.522913 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5) on port 11458

Only local connections are allowed.

Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally

(Driver info: chromedriver=2.34.522913
(8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5),platform=Linux
4.10.0-28-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any
stacktrace information)

Command duration or timeout: 60.10 seconds

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- seetaram
  
  December 25, 2017 at 10:07 am
  
  Hi Divya,
  
  There is some issue with the Chrome. Try to update the chrome to latest version. Wherever you get this error, at that point in the code try to wait for some time. I mean use some sleep time. That should solve your problem.
  
  Reply
- Rahul
  
  January 8, 2018 at 6:18 am
  
  Please Update your chrome browser to latest version these is due to dependency of previous versions
  
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sean

May 22, 2018 at 3:26 am

I am a little confused. We started the web driver in Linux. But the second part talking about eclipse is running on windows? Or you are talking about running on Linux desktop?

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Vinod

October 11, 2019 at 5:13 am

Hi,

I am not able to run selenium scripts in linux machine.
chrome version: 77
Driver version: 77

I am executing below code in windows and its working but same when I execute in linux machine its not working.
I have changed chrome driver path(I have set the path where it is)

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args){

WebDriver driver = null;
try {
System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “C:\\Users\\vinodkumar.patil\\Documents\\Selenium jars\\chromedriver\\chromedriver.exe”);
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get(“https://gryphon.datagenic.net/app/”);
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
}
catch(Exception e)
{

}

}
}

POM.XML

4.0.0

DemoCucumberMavan
DemoCucumberMavan
0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
jar

DemoCucumberMavan
http://maven.apache.org

UTF-8

info.cukes
cucumber-java
1.2.5
test

info.cukes
cucumber-jvm-deps
1.0.5
test

info.cukes
cucumber-testng
1.2.5
compile

junit
junit

org.testng
testng
6.9.8
test

net.masterthought
cucumber-reporting
3.8.0

org.seleniumhq.selenium
selenium-remote-driver
3.0.0-beta2

com.squareup.okio
okio
1.0.0

org.seleniumhq.selenium
selenium-java
2.53.1

org.seleniumhq.selenium
selenium-support
2.53.1

com.google.code.gson
gson
2.8.6

junit
junit
4.12
test

org.jetbrains.kotlin
kotlin-stdlib
1.3.50

com.vimalselvam
cucumber-extentsreport
3.1.1

com.aventstack
extentreports
4.0.0

org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-resources-plugin
2.4

org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-surefire-plugin
2.14.1

testng.xml

net.masterthought
maven-cucumber-reporting
3.8.0

execution
verify

generate

DemoCucumberMavan
target/cucumber-reports/advanced-reports
target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json
1
false

Please suggest me if I am missing any steps.

Thanks in advance.

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xpt

May 14, 2022 at 2:04 pm

When running the above demo, I’m getting:

“`
May 13, 2022 11:51:26 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities chrome
Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: chrome not reachable
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:25:53’
“`

Why is that and how to fix? Thanks!

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Running Selenium Tests with ChromeDriver on Linux

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