Serenity 4 fails to use specified binary for chrome

[amadain17]

What happened?

My serenity.conf file has, as noted in https://serenity-bdd.github.io/docs/guide/driver_config#configuring-driver-binaries-by-hand, a section pointing to my downloaded binaries like so:

drivers {
windows {
webdriver.chrome.driver = "src/test/resources/webdriver/windows/chromedriver.exe"
}
mac {
webdriver.chrome.driver = "src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/chromedriver"
}
linux {
webdriver.chrome.driver = "src/test/resources/webdriver/linux/chromedriver"
}
}

I also specified the binary in the webdriver capabilities section like so:

webdriver {
capabilities {
browserName = "Chrome"
"goog:chromeOptions" {
binary="src/test/resources/drivers/chromedriver-mac-arm64/chromedriver"
args = [
"start-maximized",
"headless",
"test-type",
"no-sandbox",
"ignore-certificate-errors",
"disable-popup-blocking",
"disable-default-apps",
"disable-extensions-file-access-check",
"disable-dev-shm-usage",
"incognito",
"disable-infobars",
"disable-gpu" ]
}
}
timeouts {
implicitlywait = 30000
fluentwait = 300000
}
}

when I ran my tests I got:

net.thucydides.core.webdriver.DriverConfigurationError: Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Caused by: net.thucydides.core.webdriver.DriverConfigurationError:
WebDriver was unable to create a new instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
WebDriver reported the following message: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: No matching capabilities found
Host info: host: 'X143FPVYP2', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:10fa:1597:8da5:e20d%en0'
Build info: version: '4.12.0', revision: '249f2a7d1b*'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'aarch64', os.version: '14.7', java.version: '17.0.4.1'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: false, browserName: Chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [start-maximized, test-type, no-sandbox, ignore-certificate-errors, disable-popup-blocking, disable-default-apps, disable-extensions-file-acc..., disable-dev-shm-usage, incognito, disable-infobars, disable-gpu, start-maximized, test-type, no-sandbox, ignore-certificate-errors, disable-popup-blocking, disable-default-apps, disable-extensions-file-acc..., disable-dev-shm-usage, incognito, disable-infobars, disable-gpu, remote-allow-origins=*], binary: src/test/resources/drivers/..., extensions: []}}]}]
See below for more details.
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException:
Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: No matching capabilities found

What did you expect to happen?

I expected my tests to use the binary stored in src/test/resources/webdriver/mac/chromedriver but the error seems to indicate that selenium 4 attempted to download from the web

Serenity BDD version

4.0.1

JDK version

17

Execution environment

Using a macbook pro. The browser is chrome

How to reproduce the bug.

create a serenity.conf with the abovementioned

How can we make it happen?

Work on this myself and propose a PR (with Serenity BDD team guidance)

[wakaleo]

It looks like Selenium is trying to use your drivers but failing because it isn't happy with the config options.