Error running tests with Selenium WebDriver - FirefoxDriver error Failed to start up socket within 45000

Question

When I execute this code:

using System;
using System.Text;
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium;

namespace ekmProspector.tests.IntegrationTests.Selenium
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class RegisterAndLogin
    {
        private IWebDriver driver;   

        [TestFixtureSetUp]
        public void Init()
        {            

            driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        }
}

I get this error:

tests.IntegrationTests.Selenium.RegisterAndLogin (TestFixtureSetUp):
SetUp : OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : Failed to start up socket within 45000

Not sure what the error is..But the error is fatal. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Normally a socket exception occurs when the client and server are unable to talk to each other. So in your case the problem could be that the versions of selenium jars, driver.exe and browser don't match with each other.

Get the latest JAR files and driver executable and update your browser and everything will be back to normal.