SessionNotCreatedError: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService

Question

We have AngularJS protractor tests. The process is to set up and run these steps in order:

$ npm install
$ webdriver-manager update --ie32 --ignore_ssl
$ gul         


        

Answer 1

If you set the below in your config you can download the latest chromedriver.exe and run it directly with the below code. Only geckoDriver and chromeDriver work with directConnect.

directConnect: true,
chromeDriver: 'path_to_chromedriver',
geckoDriver: 'path_to_geckodriver.exe',