Selenium UnreachableBrowserException - “Could not start a new session” in SoapUI Groovy TestStep

Question

I use SoapUI Pro 5.1.2 on Win7 x32, and try to connect to Selenium Webdriver in Groovy TestStep.

For this purpose I added selenium-standalone-server.jar

Answer 1

I have encountered the same error, which said:

org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

but chromedriver.exe started fine. I can see it in task manager.

My environment is as following,

• windows 7, ultimate, 64 bit system
• selenium-server-standalone-2.47.1
• chromedriver 2.19
• google chrome: 45.0

After many tries suggested in google results, my final solution is to add 127.0.0.1 localhost to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Hope to help you!