Actually I'm a bit confused. Although I read several resources about this.

For having a test of Selenium 3 using ChromeBrowser we need an extra app called ChromeDriver.

I found this text from GitHub:

ChromeDriver is only compatible with Chrome version 12.0.712.0 or newer. If you need to test an older version of Chrome, use Selenium RC and a Selenium-backed WebDriver instance.

My question is are all ChromeDriver versions compatible with all Chrome version? No conflict between each version?

Where can I find documentation of all versions matching between the ChromeDriver & ChromeBrowser?

2016-12-14 01:32
by gumuruh

Compatibility matrix

Here is a chart of the compatibility between chromedriver and chrome. This information can be found at the Chromedriver downloads page.

chromedriver    chrome
2.46            71-73
2.45            70-72
2.44            69-71
2.43            69-71
2.42            68-70
2.41            67-69
2.40            66-68
2.39            66-68
2.38            65-67
2.37            64-66
2.36            63-65
2.35            62-64
2.34            61-63
2.33            60-62
---------------------
2.28            57+
2.25            54+
2.24            53+
2.22            51+
2.19            44+
2.15            42+

All versions are not cross-compatible.

For example, we had a bug today where chromedriver 2.33 was trying to run this on Chrome 65:

((ChromeDriver) driver).findElement(By.id("firstName")).sendKeys("hello")

Due to the navigation changes in Chrome 63, updated in Chromedriver 2.34, we got back

unknown error: call function result missing 'value'

Updating to Chromedriver 2.37 fixed the issue.

2018-04-02 20:47
by Barett

thanks Barret, that's the best answer - gumuruh 2018-07-19 03:52

For starters, all ChromeDriver versions are not compatible with all versions of Chrome.
Sometimes I wake up, run my script, if it breaks, I update the driver. Then it works. Chrome has quietly updated itself without telling me.

For a starting point of finding which chromedrivers go with which chrome versions this link brings you to the current release notes. You can look at previous release notes for earlier versions.

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.26/notes.txt

----------ChromeDriver v2.26 (2016-12-09)----------

Supports Chrome v53-55

This page will show you the current release https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

2016-12-14 01:53
by ProgrammersBlock

seems that we need to un-check the auto-update of that chrome browser. right? @ProgrammersBloc - gumuruh 2016-12-14 04:04

That depends. Usually updates to me mean security changes so I would not want to miss any of those. I think what it really calls for is a script that automatically checks for new ChromeDrivers and notifies me ahead of time. : - ProgrammersBlock 2016-12-14 11:54

Which ChromeDriver version is compatible with which Chrome Browser version?

Compatibility matrix

All versions are not cross-compatible.