Run Geb Test in Chrome on Linux: Ubuntu

Hello, friends I am again with you to share solution of a problem in functional testing using geb in grails. I have faced this problem while I am using chrome browser to run test. This shows an exception that you do not have any driver for chrome but I have already installed chrome in my Ubuntu system. Then I found a solution for this and I want to share it with you.

• My GebConfig.groovy entry is like this:-

  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
  
  driver = { 
      def driver = new ChromeDriver()
      driver.manage().window().maximize()
      return driver 
  }
  
  environments {
      chrome {
          driver = { def driver = new ChromeDriver()
              driver.manage().window().maximize()
              return driver
          }
      }
  }
  

• When I run test this error occurs:-
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property

To fix this problem follow the easy steps:-

• Download the latest chrome driver from this link Download Chrome.
• Extract the driver from downloaded file.
• Move extracted driver from current directory to /bin directory of your system by using this command from console sudo mv chromedriver /bin
• Now run your application test, it works…. 🙂

I hope this help you, please give your valuable feedback.