Serenity BDD framework test case fails after Chrome Version update 116

Question

Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver (Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114 . Here is my serenity.conf file code.

serenity {
take.screenshots = FOR_FAILURES
}
webdriver {
  driver = chrome
  autodownload = true
}
headless.mode = false
chrome.switches = "--start-maximized;--window-size=1920,1080;--remote-allow-origins=*"

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Followed the below steps and resolved the issue. ✅✅✅

• Go to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager
• Get the latest WebDriverManager dependency (I used 5.5.2 and it worked for me)
• Paste the dependency into your pom.xml file.
• Load the Maven changes
• Run your tests.