Error Executing Safari Selenium tests on Windows 7

Question

Safari v5.1.7 latest for Windows 7 giving exception on execution. Please let me know if someone has solution.

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: SafariDriver requires Safari 10 running on OSX El Capitan or greater.
Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700'
System info: host: 'Ravi-PC', ip: '192.168.145.1', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_111'
Driver info: driver.version: SafariDriver
    at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.getExecutor(SafariDriver.java:75)
    at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.<init>(SafariDriver.java:62)
    at org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.<init>(SafariDriver.java:42)
    at com.seleniumHandsOn.LaunchBrowser.main(LaunchBrowser.java:13)

Answer 1

It looks like your safaridriver is updated/outdated, try upgrading your safaridriver first, if that does not work, try downgrading it.

For Safari on windows, apple has dropped support. So, it will be difficult to execute safari on windows.