Failed To Launch IE Driver Using Selenium WebDriver?

Question

I am trying to execute the selenium web driver script in IE browser but I got this error? can any one provide the solution.

Code :

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
public class demo3 {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\work\\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe");
 WebDriver driver= new InternetExplorerDriver(); 
 driver.get("http://www.msn.com");
 System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
 System.out.println(driver.getCurrentUrl());
 }
}

Getting Error in console and have also attached the screenshot :

Aug 12, 2018 8:52:17 PM org.openqa.selenium.os.OsProcess checkForError SEVERE: org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException: Execution failed (Exit value: -559038737. Caused by java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\work\MicrosoftWebDriver.exe" (in directory "."): CreateProcess error=193, %1 is not a valid Win32 application) Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start. Build info: version: '3.13.0', revision: '2f0d292', time: '2018-06-25T15:32:14.902Z' System info: host: 'GITANJALI-PC', ip: '192.168.0.12', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '10.0.2' Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:193) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:179) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:79) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:548) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:212) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:221) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:213) at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.(InternetExplorerDriver.java:150) at demo3.main(demo3.java:10) Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [http://localhost:42885/status] to be available after 20007 ms at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:100) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:188) ... 8 more Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:204) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:156) at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:75) ... 9 more

• Yu Zhang: can you please edit it a bit so that we can read it?
• Alexey R.: You probably are trying to run the application compiled for 64-bit Windows under 32-bit Windows.

Answer 1

MicrosoftWebDriver.exe is the Edge driver, not IE driver. As others have mentioned the IE driver is called IEDriverServer.exe.

As an example of a launcher for IE:

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\DriverFiles\\IE\\x32\\IEDriverServer.exe");
// custom stuff IE needs in order to work (some only needed for Win10+)
DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
ieCapabilities.setCapability("nativeEvents", false);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("unexpectedAlertBehaviour", "accept");
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("disable-popup-blocking", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("enablePersistentHover", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreZoomSetting", true);
// deprecated but working
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCapabilities);
// Set browser defaults (maximise, clear cookies, set timeouts)
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

• Venus: Thank you so much :)

Answer 2

Change the following line as

 System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C:\\work\\IEDriverServer.exe");

The file name is IEDriverServer.exe and not MicrosoftWebDriver.exe. Check the path for IE driver.