chrome browser not getting launched after changing selenium version to 3.13.0

Question

I was using 2.53 selenium version and now I have changed my selenium version to 3.13.0. With this version change chromedriver is not getting initialized. In simple words chrome is not getting launched. But if I again change to selenium 2.53 then it works fine. I am using maven.

• Chrome browser version is 70
• Chrome driver version is 2.43

In pom.xml I changed below dependency version to 3.13.0: - selenium-java - selenium-server - selenium-chrome-driver - selenium-support

Any idea of this kind of issues. Let me know if you required more details

SeleniumWebdriver code:

public class SeleniumDriverSetup extends Thread {   


    public  static WebDriver getDriver(String strBrowser) throws Exception
    {
        WebDriver driver = null;
        ExcelUtils.setExcelFile(HelperMethods.getRunEngineFileName());
        String OS = GlobalConstants.operatingSystem;

        if(OS.equalsIgnoreCase("Windows")){     

            if(strBrowser.trim().toUpperCase().equals("CHROME"))
            {               
                System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",GlobalConstants.librariesPath +"chromedriver.exe"); 
                driver = new ChromeDriver();           
                driver.manage().window().maximize();
                System.out.println("***CHROME DRIVER HAS BEEN CREATED");

            }           
        }   
    return driver;
    }
}

click here to check pom.xml

Answer 1

I think, that this import:

selenium-chrome-driver

Should be not 3.13.0 but 2.42 or 2.43 (these two versions support Chrome version 70).