Unable to launch Chrome browser through Selenium in Jenkins on Linux platform

Question

Jenkins is showing message starting the chromedriver but the chromedriver is not triggered and testcase fails.i dont know why it is happening

Note: the xml created for this code runs successfully on terminal.i think issue is with chromedriver

SELENIUM CODE:

   public class cmddd {
      @Test
      public void f() throws InterruptedException {
          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/home/dev2/Downloads/newchromedriver/chromedriver");
            WebDriver m = new ChromeDriver();
            m.get("https://www.google.com/");
            System.out.println("passed");
    }
    }


JENKINS OUTPUT:

   Building in workspace /home/dev2/eclipse-workspace/seffcon
    [seffcon] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/jenkins170843147783066328.sh
    + ./cd.sh
    [TestNG] Running:
      /home/dev2/eclipse-workspace/seffcon/cd.xml

    Starting ChromeDriver 2.40.565383 (76257d1ab79276b2d53ee976b2c3e3b9f335cde7) on port 20671
    Only local connections are allowed.

    ===============================================
    Suite
    Total tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
    ===============================================
    Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
    Finished: FAILURE

Answer 1

This error message...

Starting ChromeDriver 2.40.565383 (76257d1ab79276b2d53ee976b2c3e3b9f335cde7) on port 20671
Only local connections are allowed.
.
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser ie Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chromedriver=2.40
• Release Notes of chromedriver=2.40 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v66-68

• Possibly you are using the latest Chrome Browser ie chrome=72.0
• As per ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome :
  • If you are using Chrome version 73, please download ChromeDriver 73.0.3683.20
  • If you are using Chrome version 72, please download ChromeDriver 2.46 or ChromeDriver 72.0.3626.69
  • If you are using Chrome version 71, please download ChromeDriver 2.46 or ChromeDriver 71.0.3578.137
  • For older version of Chrome, please see this discussion for the version of ChromeDriver that supports it.

---

Solution

• Upgrade Chrome version to Chrome v72 level.
• As per ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome upgrade ChromeDriver to ChromeDriver v2.46 or ChromeDriver 72.0.3626.69 .
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
• If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client .
• Take a System Reboot .
• Execute your @Test .
• Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.

Answer 2

Check your chromedriver version and chromebrowser version. I had noticed this behaviour when there is a version mismatch.

You can refer this link http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads