can't run selenium test on vs code

Question

     import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
     import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("hi"); 
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
        driver.quit(); 
    }
}

I imported jar file for selenium and downloaded right webchrome drive and it give me error

PS D:\software testing task 2>  & 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-17.0.1\bin\java.exe' '-XX:+ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages' '@C:\Users\mohamed\AppData\Local\Temp\cp_apvu20bu2lqgd550a094p3mwf.argfile' 'App' 
zzzzzzzzzz
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
        at org.openqa.selenium.internal.Require$StateChecker.nonNull(Require.java:311)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:135)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:38)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:231)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:437)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:127)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:48)
        at App.main(App.java:7)

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '22 at 21:45

Driver path should be set before browser launch as given below.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\List_of_Jar\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver wd =new ChromeDriver();
String baseUrl = "https://www.google.com";
wd.get(baseUrl);"

Getting "The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property"though set correct path

The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information:

System.setProperty("<Path to>chromedriver.exe");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '22 at 05:26

Absolute Path: System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\List_of_Jar\chromedriver.exe");

Relative Path:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir")+"./Driver\\chromedriver.exe");

Path to the driver must be set before webdriver object creation and check browser version and chromedriver version.

can't run selenium test on vs code

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