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Quality Assurance Intermediate Selenium WebDriver Use Selenium with Testing Frameworks Selenium and Mocha

Brendan Whiting
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Selenium is running test just in Safari as opposed to Chrome and Firefox

at 4:55 I have the same code as the video:

const { Browser, By, Key, until } = require('selenium-webdriver');
const { suite } = require("selenium-webdriver/testing");
const assert = require('assert');


suite(function(env) {
  describe('RSVP site', function() {
    it('has invitee', function() {
      assert(1 == 1);
    })
  })
});

But when I run the code it only runs it in Safari, not in Chrome and Firefox as in the video.

[safari]
    RSVP site
      ✓ has invitee


  1 passing (5ms)

Why is that?

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Do you have the drivers for those browsers installed? Once you do, they'll be run automatically.

npm install -g chromedriver
npm install -g geckodriver
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Ah. I ran those commands but didn't realize that they had failed with permission denied. Not sure what to do about it, this is using sudo:

Downloading https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.40/chromedriver_mac64.zip
Saving to /tmp/chromedriver/chromedriver_mac64.zip
Received 781K...
Received 1568K...
Received 2352K...
Received 3136K...
Received 3920K...
Received 4704K...
Received 5488K...
Received 5532K total.
Extracting zip contents
Copying to target path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver
ChromeDriver installation failed { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver'
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:902:18)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/chromedriver/install.js:230:10
    at <anonymous>
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver' }
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! chromedriver@2.40.0 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the chromedriver@2.40.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/brendanwhiting/.npm/_logs/2018-07-18T16_39_31_541Z-debug.log
Jay McGavren
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Googling for "npm install g Error: EACCES: permission denied" returned this page; looks like it might be helpful. https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions Let us know what results you get!

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Sorry it took me so long to respond. I went through the suggestion "Manually change npm’s default directory" at the link and it worked. Although when I run the tests, it still runs with just Safari, not sure why. At any rate, I was able to complete the course without issues.

Thanks.