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Running webdriver IEDriver on Jenkins fails

I have a small C# webdriver test suite dll which I recently created...

  • Runs fine in Visual Studio
  • Runs from the command line perfectly using the NUnit 3 console runner.

I have Jenkins installed on my laptop (for testing before I put it into my live Jenkins), running with my Windows credentials. When I execute the test suite using the same NUnit3 console runner command I used before, all the tests fail, can't even log in as it can't find any elements. I took screenshots with Selenium & it's just a black rectangle!

Anyone have any ideas on how to get IE behaving - I bet it's a Windows permissions thing from Jenkins. Thanks!

Solution

  • I'll answer my own question.

    Turns out you can't do what I'm attempting - it's a known issue with the way IE is built. What I had to do is install a new Jenkins node on another machine and get that to run the IE tests. That way it did work.