Chrome browser is not launching after run of the code. What is the problem?

Question

After running this code the Chrome browser does not lunch.

I'm using Chrome browser v.71.0.3578.98 (official build), (32 bit) and the chrome driver version 2.42

public class MainClass {

    public static void main (String [] args ) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
                            "C:\\Users\\Lenovo\\IdeaProjects\\Testnext\\Driver");    
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();    
        driver.get("https:facebook.com");
    }
}

This is the actual result:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable is a directory: C:\Users\Lenovo\IdeaProjects\Testnext\Driver
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:585)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:148)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:35)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:159)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:355)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:94)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:123)
at MainClass.main(MainClass.java:10)

Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

webdriver.chrome.driver property must point to the chromedriver.exe executable, not to a directory containing it.

Locate the chromedriver.exe executable on your file system and correct your property value.