Selenium Automation WebDriver Manager is not working for Chrome version 116

Question

I have used this dependency in selenium framework. but browser is not invoked because of chrome version is 116

<dependency> <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId> <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId> <version>5.4.1</version> </dependency> 

Chrome browser should invoke automatically

Answer 1

Quick solution: Upgrade your selenium to v4.11.0 in your POM.xml as below:

<dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId> <version>4.11.0</version> </dependency> 

Having said that, if you use latest selenium you don't need webdrivermanager. Selenium's inbuilt tool SeleniumManager will do what WDM used to do (i.e. download and management of driver.exe). If you use latest selenium, code can be as simple as:

public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("https://www.google.com"); System.out.println(driver.getTitle()); } 

Answer 2

you need Java version 11 or higher to use WebDriverManager 5.4.1

Answer 3

I have same problem. I upgraded to 4.11.0 but still have same issue which is "java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable 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 https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html "

edit : my solution is to use that

<selenium.version>4.11.0</selenium.version> in properties

otherwise, older version of selenium was being used.