Is there a way to Serenity automatically gets latest driver based on current version of the browser?

[sudhirpogaku]

It is getting very difficult everytime to manually replace the chromedriver.exe whenever chrome browser is auto updated. So, I was looking if there is any existing solution where Serenity project can get the driver based on system browser version.

[wakaleo]

Serenity integrates automatically with WebDriverManager, so you don't need to specify the chromedriver explicitly.

[sudhirpogaku]

Thanks for quick response @wakaleo :)
Do we have to mention anything specific at pom level or serenity.conf level for this automatic integration ? because my project is not automatically fetching driver.
Please find below my serenity.config file:
webdriver {
driver = chrome
}
headless.mode = true
drivers {
windows {
webdriver.chrome.driver = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/chromedriver.exe"
}
}

So , webdriver is launched based on the path, and that path has driver which I have manually placed.
To eliminate this process of manually placing driver, what should I do?

[zzoubian]

i would remove that drivers {windows { webdriver.chrome.driver} } block, and add webdriver.autodownload = true

Here is an example:
https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-cucumber-starter/blob/master/src/test/resources/serenity.conf

[sudhirpogaku]

Thanks @zzoubian for your response. I tried the solution you mentioned, but it is not for working for me. Below is the log:

_net.thucydides.core.webdriver.DriverConfigurationError: Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newDriverInstance(WebDriverFacade.java:144)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newProxyDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:132)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.getProxiedDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:102)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.get(WebDriverFacade.java:172)
at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.openPageAtUrl(PageObject.java:902)
at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.openUrl(PageObject.java:851)

.
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Caused by: net.thucydides.core.webdriver.DriverConfigurationError: Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver (The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html). See below for more details.
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFactory.newWebdriverInstance(WebDriverFactory.java:158)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newDriverInstance(WebDriverFacade.java:141)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newProxyDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:132)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.getProxiedDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:102)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.get(WebDriverFacade.java:172)
at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.openPageAtUrl(PageObject.java:902)
at net.serenitybdd.core.pages.PageObject.openUrl(PageObject.java:851)_

[Jagadish290392]

@sudhirpogaku have you got solution for this? I am facing the same

[sudhirpogaku]

Yes Jagadesh,
Added below
webdriver.autodownload = true
chrome.switches = """--start-maximized;--test-type;--no-sandbox;--ignore-certificate-errors;--disable-popup-blocking;--disable-default-apps;--incognito;--disable-infobars;--disable-gpu;--remote-allow-origins=*"""

[Jagadish290392]

@sudhirpogaku Thank you ! It worked

[sudhirpogaku]

You are welcome. Closing this issue.

[SrivaniChennupati]

@sudhirpogaku : the solution is provided working for the browser above 114 version ?