I am facing the same Exception in thread main java lang IllegalStateException error I used System setProperty to provide path Can anyone help me

Question

This is the code

package FirstPackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class FirstSeleniumProject {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\KSaraswathiChowdary\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get("http://way2automation.com");

}

}

Answer 1

Can you please share the screenshot of Error logs in Console. Because your code works fines on my system.

Comments

I am unable to paste the Screenshot here. Below are the error logs in Console

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable does not exist: C:\Users\KSaraswathiChowdary\Documents\softwares\chromedriver_win32.exe

at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:585)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:146)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:141)

at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:35)

at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:159)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:355)

at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:94)

at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:123)

at FirstPackage.FirstSeleniumProject.main(FirstSeleniumProject.java:13)

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I think this error is occurring either because of the wrong chromedriver path or because of the corrupt chromedriver.exe file. Try deleting the chromedriver.exe file and downloading it again. And then copy the path properly and use this path in System.setProperty() method.