Jenkins build with Access DataBase Engine on C# for Selenium Tests,Getting Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine

Question

For my selenium Nnuint tests, Access Data Base Engine used to read data from Excel sheet.While these tests are running from Jenkins, i am getting below error message.

Invalid : Automation_Smoke_Tests.CategoryExecution.CategorybaseExcetion
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
  ----> System.InvalidOperationException : The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at NUnit.Framework.TestCaseSourceAttribute.GetTestCaseSource(IMethodInfo method) in C:\src\nunit\nunit\src\NUnitFramework\framework\Attributes\TestCaseSourceAttribute.cs:line 277
   at NUnit.Framework.TestCaseSourceAttribute.GetTestCasesFor(IMethodInfo method) in C:\src\nunit\nunit\src\NUnitFramework\framework\Attributes\TestCaseSourceAttribute.cs:line 173
--InvalidOperationException
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbServicesWrapper.GetDataSource(OleDbConnectionString constr, DataSourceWrapper& datasrcWrapper)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.TryOpenConnectionInternal(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
   at LinqToExcel.Query.ExcelUtilities.GetWorksheetNames(ExcelQueryArgs args)
   at LinqToExcel.ExcelQueryFactory.GetWorksheetNames()

Answer 1

I'm actually running into a similar issue right now. It looks like the machine hosting the Jenkins server doesn't have the correct access engine installed.

I found that I had to have the 2010 version installed. This is where it gets interesting for me. The access engine has 2 variations - a regular version and then an x64 version. I had to have the NON x64 version installed so my tests would run locally in Visual Studio but to get them to execute in Jenkins then I needed the x64 version.

You should be able to find the 2010 downloads here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255 .