Connection refused! Is selenium server started?
When you update your Google Chrome version and suddenly when you start running automation you hit the above mentioned error.
Solution
- Get the latest chromedriver (https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/)
Make sure your automation framework uses the latest chromedriver
For projects using node.js, nightwatch.js, running on Mac OS use the following steps
- Update the package.json
- npm update
/<PWD>/node_modules/chromedriver/bin/chromedriver
/<PWD>/node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver/chromedriver