I recently updated my Selenium version to 4.30 and decided to take advantage of the new feature where ChromeDriver path no longer needs to be specified.

My new set up code is:

public void setUp(String url) {
    rootUrl = url;
    try {
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(10));
        driver.manage().timeouts().scriptTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30));
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(60));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    driver.get(rootUrl);
}

My tests are running fine locally, but when I run them on Jenkins, I encounter the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.get(String)” because “this.driver” is null .openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure. Host info: host: ‘devxxxx’, ip: ‘10.x.xxx.1xx’
...
Caused by: .openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Driver server process died prematurely, exit value: 1
Build info: version: '4.30.0', revision: '509c7f17cc*'
System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64', java.version: '17.0.7'

Why does it run locally but fails on Jenkins?