Selenium – How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Chrome

Actually the error message is slightly wrong. You don't have to set the system property, but the chromedriver executable needs to be available in the PATH on the remote machine (where the server is running).

If you want to specify the path as a property, you can do that when you launch the server, e.g.:

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/path/to/driver -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar

I believe you have several options:

Either specify the folder (in which your chromedriver binary is) in your PATH system variable - here's how

Or give you application webdriver.chrome.driver as a system property by calling it with -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=the/path/to/it parameter.

Or the same programatically: System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "your/path/to/it");

Or this:

private static ChromeDriverService service;
private WebDriver driver;

@BeforeClass
public static void createAndStartService() {
    service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
            .usingChromeDriverExecutable(new File("path/to/my/chromedriver"))
            .usingAnyFreePort()
            .build();
            service.start();
}

@Before
public void createDriver() {
    driver = new RemoteWebDriver(service.getUrl(), DesiredCapabilities.chrome());
}

@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    driver.quit();
}

@AfterClass
public static void createAndStopService() {
    service.stop();
}