When I try to run my Serenity test automation, I called following maven command:
mvn clean verify -Dentry_point="**/*SmokeTestSuite.java" -Dwebdriver.driver="iexplorer" -Dwebdriver.ie.driver="<my path>\IEDriverServer.exe"
I supplied the iexplorer as the driver and the path to the IEDriverServer.exe. My Internet Explorer version is 11.x. It errors out that I need to add the path to safari.exe when I am running the ie driver.
Follows is error stack trace :
[pool-1-thread-1] ERROR net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade - FAILED TO CREATE NEW WEBDRIVER_DRIVER INSTANCE class org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver: Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
net.thucydides.core.webdriver.UnsupportedDriverException: Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFactory.newWebdriverInstance(WebDriverFactory.java:128)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newDriverInstance(WebDriverFacade.java:142)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.newProxyDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:133)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.getProxiedDriver(WebDriverFacade.java:103)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFacade.getTitle(WebDriverFacade.java:213)
at net.serenitybdd.jbehave.SerenityReporter.managedDriverIsNotAlive(SerenityReporter.java:215)
at net.serenitybdd.jbehave.SerenityReporter.beforeScenario(SerenityReporter.java:188)
at org.jbehave.core.reporters.DelegatingStoryReporter.beforeScenario(DelegatingStoryReporter.java:55)
at org.jbehave.core.reporters.ConcurrentStoryReporter.beforeScenario(ConcurrentStoryReporter.java:158)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.PerformableTree$PerformableScenario.perform(PerformableTree.java:877)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.PerformableTree$PerformableStory.performScenarios(PerformableTree.java:811)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.PerformableTree$PerformableStory.perform(PerformableTree.java:784)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.PerformableTree.performCancellable(PerformableTree.java:416)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.PerformableTree.perform(PerformableTree.java:387)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryManager$EnqueuedStory.call(StoryManager.java:291)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.StoryManager$EnqueuedStory.call(StoryManager.java:265)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) .
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Safari could not be found in the path!
Please add the directory containing ''Safari.exe'' to your PATH environment
variable, or explicitly specify a path to Safari like this:
*safari c:\blah\Safari.exe
at org.openqa.selenium.browserlaunchers.locators.SingleBrowserLocator.findBrowserLocationOrFail(SingleBrowserLocator.java:42)
at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriverCommandExecutor.start(SafariDriverCommandExecutor.java:100)
at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.startClient(SafariDriver.java:76)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:119)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.<init>(SafariDriver.java:62)
at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.<init>(SafariDriver.java:53)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.strategies.InternetExplorerDriverBuilder.newInstance(InternetExplorerDriverBuilder.java:30)
at net.thucydides.core.webdriver.WebDriverFactory.newWebdriverInstance(WebDriverFactory.java:116)
... 19 more
webdriver.driver is the correct Serenity property to set the driver. I'm not sure what DebajanB means by "error-prone" - as a rule, it works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, it's a configuration issue. To check that the driver property is configured correctly in Maven (you may need to pass it into your tests as a system property in the surefire or failsafe plugin), see if it works with firefox.
The references to webdriver.gecko.driver etc tell Serenity where to find the binary for a particular driver, but they do not tell Serenity which driver to use. You can have several driver binaries configured, and then chose to use one or the other with webdriver.driver.
Safari is not the default driver for Serenity, Firefox is, so the reference to Safari is curious. It may be a defect/misleading error message from an older version - are you using the latest version of Serenity?