Running node js selenium test case on Chrome get Error Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:63528

Question

Running a test case on selenium node js got error Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED.

Test case

var assert = require('assert'),
 test = require('selenium-webdriver/testing'),
 webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
test.describe('Google Search', function () {
 test.it('should work', function (done) {
 this.timeout(100000);
 var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build();
 driver.get('http://www.google.com');
 var searchBox = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('q'));
 searchBox.sendKeys('simple programmer');
 searchBox.getAttribute('value').then(function (value) {
 assert.equal(value, 'simple programmer');
 });
 driver.quit();
 done();
 });
});

And the error stack trace as follows

Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:63528 at ClientRequest. (node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:238:15)

Answer 1

I'm not sure your example would work, if you want to run the tests locally you would need to install and load the correct selenium drivers.

For chrome I tried to use the var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('chrome') syntax with no luck, chrome would fire up but not run tests, I just saw the error you describe. However for FireFox var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('firefox').build(); workes perfectly !

I found this works (running locally)

 var assert = require('assert'),
 webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),
 By = webdriver.By,
 until = webdriver.until,
 chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome'),
 firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox');
 var path = require('chromedriver').path;
 var driver = chrome.Driver.createSession(new chrome.Options(), new 
 chrome.ServiceBuilder(path).build());
 driver.get('http://mysite/myapp/tests/functional/start.html');
 //tests here

• Dilip Meghwal: working with selenium 4 as well. Thanks Kevin.