How do I stay ahead with the latest WebDriver version on Selenium

Question

Since the browser update yesterday my test won't start and I get the message:

There was an error creating WebDriver object for Chrome

I use Selenium Jupiter with the @TestTemplate and my browsers.json looks:

{
  "browsers": [
    [
      {
        "type": "chrome",
        "version": "latest"
      }
    ]
  ]
}

Here my dependencies:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
      <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
      <version>4.14.0</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
      <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
      <version>5.5.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
      <artifactId>selenium-jupiter</artifactId>
      <version>4.3.7</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

I thought that the webdrivermanager would solve that version issues. My experience with Selenium is not so huge, because I use that only for a few weeks.

Is there a solution to keep up with the latest browser versions?

Answer 1

Selenium 4.14 has built in Selenium Manager. Just remove the webdrivermanager dependency

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();