How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Firefox with Maven?

Question

I need to create simple autotest using FirefoxDriver with Maven.

excerpt from pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
    <version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>

test case:

@BeforeTest
public void StartBrowser_NavURL() {
    capability = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
    capability.setCapability("platform", Platform.ANY);
    capability.setCapability("binary", "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe");


    driver = new FirefoxDriver(capability);
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
}

@AfterTest
public void CloseBrowser() {
    driver.quit();
}

@Test
public void testToCompareDoubles() {
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");
}

And after running test executing command

mvn -test

I receive the following exception:

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Failed to connect to binary FirefoxBinary(C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe) on port 7055; process output follows: egistering shutdown blocker for LightweightThemeManager

Mozilla Firefox version: 49.0.1 (it should be compatible with Selenium Webdriver). "hosts" file is empty. Windows firewall is disabled.

Do you have any ideas, how could I fix the problem?

Answer 1

It looks like incompatibility issue between Selenium2 and Mozilla Firefox version: 49.0.1 .

Actually Mozilla has launched executable geckodriver to support latest firefox >= v47 just like other driver executable with selenium.

You need to download latest geckodriver executable first , extract downloaded zip file into your system at any location and set this executable path with executable itself into System properly with variable webdriver.gecko.driver .

Now run selenium script to launch Mozilla Firefox using marionette as below :-

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "path/to/geckodriver.exe");

//Now you can Initialize marionette driver to launch firefox
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);

WebDriver driver = new MarionetteDriver(capabilities); //for selenium 3 use new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

Note :- If Mozilla Firefox installed at default location into your system, no need to provide explicitly binary path into selenium script, selenium would itself find it from default location.