How to create a test program using Chrome WebDriver with Selenium Java API?

Here is a simple test program that the Chrome WebDriver Test with the Selenium Java API:

C:\fyicenter> type ChromeTest.java

import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.*;
public class ChromeTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
     WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
     driver.get("http://www.google.com");
     driver.quit();
  }
}

Compile and run it with the Selenium Client JAR file:

C:\fyicenter> javac -classpath \
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar \
   ChromeTest.java

C:\fyicenter> java -classpath \
   .;\fyicenter\selenium\java\client-combined-3.141.59.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\guava-25.0-jre.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okhttp-3.11.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\okio-1.14.0.jar;\
   \fyicenter\selenium\java\libs\commons-exec-1.3.jar \
   ChromeTest

Starting ChromeDriver 2.16.333243 (0bfa1d3575fc1044244f21ddb82bf870944ef961) on port 44239
Only local connections are allowed.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: session not created exception
from unknown error: Runtime.executionContextCreated has invalid 'context': 
   {"auxData":{"frameId":"E21148227BBAC982FC87783A806149E3","isDefault":true,"type":"default"},
   "id":1,"name":"","origin":"://"}
  (Session info: chrome=74.0.3729.169)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.16.333243 (0bfa1d3575fc1044244f21ddb82bf870944ef961),platform=Windows NT 10.0 x86_64) 
  (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 3.21 seconds
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:48'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '12.0.1'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
   at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
   at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
   at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
   at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(Constructor.java:500)
   at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:481)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:214)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:166)
   ...    

As you can see, we are not able to create the session: "session not created exception". The default ChromeDriver version is 2.16, which is not compatible with Selenium WebDriver 3.141. See next tutorial on how to fix it.

 

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