Steps done: I downloaded https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager and checkout to 5.0.3 tag. Webdrivermanager is a library that handles downloading drivers for running tests on different browsers. Came here because I was experimenting an issue with a project, and found out that is reproducible so anybody can reproduce.
I tried to run the Microsoft Edge tests on my mac. After running, webdrivermanager downloads the latest edge version. In /Users/raul/.cache/selenium I can find the msdriveredge being downloaded with the 110.0.1587.57 version. In the IntellJ console, I can check the driver is successfully downloaded with the latest version and a random port in localhost is opened to wait for HTTP requests.
When I perform the POST https://localhost:{port}/session request with any/some capabilities, I always get the following message:
"message": "unknown error: cannot find msedge binary\n (Driver info: msedgedriver=110.0.1587.57 (01109f62642156c7eedb96d3c6fce911f01a896c),platform=Mac OS X 13.0.1 x86_64)"
As a result, the test fails.
I downloaded Microsoft edge, and now the tests run. This puzzles me a bit... Am I not supposed to be able to run the browser just with the .exe driver? Or is this a bug? Maybe I'm missing an environmental variable that I'm not aware of?
Yes, you need to install Microsoft Edge first before you start your automation project. In the official doc it says:
To automate Microsoft Edge with WebDriver to simulate user interaction, you need three components:
Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft Edge WebDriver.
A WebDriver testing framework.