ChromeDriver

WebDriver is an open source tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers. It provides capabilities for navigating to web pages, user input, JavaScript execution, and more. ChromeDriver is a standalone server that implements the W3C WebDriver standard. ChromeDriver is available for Chrome on Android and Chrome on Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows and ChromeOS).

Setup

ChromeDriver is a separate executable that Selenium WebDriver uses to control Chrome. It is maintained by the Chromium team with help from WebDriver contributors. If you are unfamiliar with Selenium WebDriver, you should check out the Selenium site.

Follow these steps to setup your tests for running with ChromeDriver:

• Ensure Chromium/Google Chrome is installed in a recognized location

• ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default location for your platform. You can also force ChromeDriver to use a custom location by setting a special capability.

• Download the ChromeDriver binary for your platform under the downloads section of this site

• Help WebDriver find the downloaded ChromeDriver executable

  Any of these steps should do the trick:

  • include the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable
  • (Java only) specify its location via the webdriver.chrome.driver system property (see sample below)
  • (Python only) include the path to ChromeDriver when instantiating webdriver.Chrome (see sample below)

official ites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver