If I understand this correctly your issues where caused by the configuration of your driver paths.

There is a library called webdrivermanager that will handle the configuration of binarys in your project. I use it in all my projects now and it really helped cut out any webdriver environment configuration issues

https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager

If I understand this correctly your issues were caused by the configuration of your driver paths.

There is a library called webdrivermanager that will handle the configuration of binarys in your project. I use it in all my projects now and it really helped cut out any webdriver environment configuration issues

https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager