Selenium Web Driver "Support Group"

I really don't know whether this is.... A.... going to take off as an idea... or B this is really the place to write this, and I'm doing it in jest in a way really.... because earlier today, I was thrilled to see that a new course in Selenium is going to be released soon.

So... in the back of my mind at least Selenium is back on my radar.

I'd really love to learn to make more use of this technology because the potential is huge for automation and user testing. However, despite my best efforts (and believe me, I tried and tried and tried) Selenium simply wasn't stable enough on my system. Incidentally, that's Windows 10 Home x64 Bit.

So, sooner or later when I get a bit more time I'm to try and dive back into Selenium and see if time has allowed it to be more forgiving.

Basically what was happening was when I tested selenium on my machine... Selenium would crash the testing browser instance and close it.

So I'd run these commands into npm.

require("chromedriver");

const selenium = require("selenium-webdriver")

const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser("chrome").build();

const url = "<url goes here>";

driver.get(url)l

And I knew this wasn't correct behaviour because it would put logs into the debug file. Logs that I lost hours of my time trying to google and get my head around.

[1003/114613.188:ERROR:process_reader_win.cc(123)] NtOpenThread: {Access Denied} A process has requested access to an object, but has not been granted those access rights.  (0xc0000022)
[1003/114613.189:ERROR:exception_snapshot_win.cc(87)] thread ID 11448 not found in process
[1003/114613.189:WARNING:crash_report_exception_handler.cc(62)] ProcessSnapshotWin::Initialize failed

So I thought at the very least we could put our heads together as students and see if we could get some answers. Maybe some links to actual "technical support groups" or tutorials that might help errors like this. :)

Thanks :)