{"id":176,"date":"2020-11-07T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-07-25T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T18:01:14","slug":"web-driver-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/07\/web-driver-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Driver Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why  Web Driver Manager?<\/h1>\n

To run our Selenium WebDriver automation scripts on Chrome \/ Firefox browsers, we must download the binary\/.exe files like Chromedriver.exe and geckodriver.exe.<\/p>\n

Later we need to set the path of these files in our script like below or its location should be added to the classpath.<\/p>\n

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Also, if the path is not correctly set you mostly encounter error while executing scripts like shown below:<\/p>\n

Error if the path is not set correctly:<\/h5>\n

The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property<\/p>\n

Manually downloading and managing these drivers for each operating system is very painful. We also must check when new versions of the binaries are released \/ new browsers versions are released. We should check the compatibility for all the executables and add it.<\/p>\n

To overcome this drawback of manually maintaining these binaries and setting path in scripts WebDriverManager by Boni Garcia does this for you in automated way without manually checking the new versions and maintaining binaries for all browsers.<\/p>\n

What is web driver manager in Selenium?<\/h1>\n