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louis
louis

Reputation: 625

How to start with Edge webdriver with python 2.7 and Robot framework 2.9

I have downloaded and installed edge webdriver from Microsoft website. I see the Edge driver folder in the "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\selenium-2.48.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\edge".

Whenever I try to execute the below Robot Test case:

*** Settings ***
Documentation       Test Edge Browser

*** Test Case ***
Test Edge browser
    open browser    http://www.google.in    Edge

Though I have set the environment path for "Mircrosoftwebdriver.exe". I see the "WebDriverException: Message: The EdgeDriver executable needs to be available in the path. Please download from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=619687"

Please let me know if anyone has the same issue and resolved.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 9857

Answers (5)

user15576901
user15576901

Reputation: 1

Perfect: Rename the Edge browser drive from msedgedriver (all small letters) to MicrosoftWebDriver, then the problem should be solved.

Upvotes: 0

Tianyuan Wang
Tianyuan Wang

Reputation: 1

In my case. I have the correct path. My problem is the same as James'. Rename the Edge browser drive from msedgedriver (all small letters) to MicrosoftWebDriver, then the problem should be solved.

Upvotes: 0

James Harrison
James Harrison

Reputation: 11

Not sure if this is still relevant, however I was having the same problems even though it was in my path correctly. What I noticed was when I unpacked the driver after downloading from MS the name was all in lowercase 'microsoftwebdriver.exe'. Changed name in path so it was the same as the error message 'MicrosoftWebDriver.exe' and low and behold it now works.

Upvotes: 1

A. Kootstra
A. Kootstra

Reputation: 6961

From the (current) Selenium2Library documentation it is clear that edge is supported.

The error provided seems to me that the executable Mircrosoftwebdriver.exe can not be found. The easiest way to check this is to open a command prompt (win key, type cmd, first option). In the command box type or copy-paste Mircrosoftwebdriver.exe and press enter. In case you get the following message, then the executable isn't in the path.

C:\Users\User>Mircrosoftwebdriver.exe
'Mircrosoftwebdriver.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

When you see the following response, then you know your path is set correctly for the Edge webdriver.

C:\Users\User>MicrosoftWebDriver.exe
[21:40:44.531] - Listening on http://localhost:17556/

Upvotes: 1

Clayton Martin
Clayton Martin

Reputation: 76

It looks like RobotFramework uses their own library called Selenium2Library. This library currently has a pull request to add Microsoft Edge support sitting in code review which can be found here:

https://github.com/robotframework/Selenium2Library/pull/568

Since it uses Selenium2Library the fact that selenium has support for Microsoft Edge doesn't matter. Here is where you can see supported browsers:

http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/doc/Selenium2Library.html#Open%20Browser

Upvotes: 3

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