Resolve ChromeDriver Issues in Web Test Automation

Where to look when automated tests suddenly don’t work on Chrome, but are fine on Firefox.

A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added the summary.

All software has bugs, even from tech giants. I encountered one Google ChromeDriver issue with Chrome v103 last night.

My father documented one issue with chromedriver v75 before: Lessons learned from test failures due to a new ChromeDriver bug.

Table of Contents:
· A Simple Test Failed on Chrome
· The Same Test Passed on Firefox
· Make Sure ChromeDriver Matches
· Check the ChromeDriver change log
· Revert back to the prior version of Chrome
· The Lesson Learned (by Zhimin)

A Simple Test Failed on Chrome

I was practising test automation against a site and got one test failure quickly (for a simple login test).

Test failed against Chrome

The error message in output:

Failure/Error: driver.get(site_url)
     Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError:
       unknown error: cannot determine loading status…