# Error Message =\> WebDriverException: Message: \<!-- IE friendly error message walkround

**URL:** <https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561>\
**Category:** Robot Framework\
**Created:** [5 April 2022 12:20 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561 "2022-04-05T12:20:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Centaure13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Centaure13](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Centaure13)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 12:20 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/1 "2022-04-05T12:20:17Z")

</div>

Hello,

I’m facing to a problem : I can’t execute a suite test with my IDE (VS Code).  
If I execute the tests one by one, it’s working.  
If I execute 2 tests (with tag command line), I have this error message :

WebDriverException: Message: \<!-- IE friendly error message walkround

I have found an another post which talking about this problem ([WebDriverException: Message: \<!-- IE friendly error message walkround - #5 by Brahim](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/2959/5)) but I haven’t found the solution.  
However, I think about one thing : I have paste the test from my former IDE (Eclipse) to the newer. On Eclipse, I can decide how type of tests I would to create (test file, test suite etc…).  
It seems to not be possible with VS Code, do you confirm ? Because when I type the tag command line (ex : robot -i [MyTagName] [MyFolderName] ), this error is occurs.

Here is my configuration :

- IDE : VS Code
- Python : 3.9.7
- RobotFramework : 4.1.3

Thanks a lot

John.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brahim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@Brahim](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Brahim)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 13:32 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/2 "2022-04-05T13:32:06Z")

</div>

Hi John,

In my case it was a proxy’s problem in my environments variables.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Centaure13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Centaure13](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Centaure13)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 14:47 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/3 "2022-04-05T14:47:49Z")

</div>

Hi Brahim,

In my case, it doesn’t work because I need proxy configuration to reach applications.  
Furthermore, all is fine when I execute the test one by one.

I think that the problem is on another way.

Thanks for your answer !

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brahim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@Brahim](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Brahim)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 14:53 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/4 "2022-04-05T14:53:25Z")

</div>

How do you execute your testsuite?

Do you create a .txt file ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Centaure13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Centaure13](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Centaure13)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 14:56 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/5 "2022-04-05T14:56:51Z")

</div>

No, this is a .robot file like this :  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/robotframework1/original/2X/0/04cf8827cc80893bcc2ad5340c0a023935a19f46.png)

When I right-click on this file and cselect “Run test suite”, it executes ALL the tests in this file.  
But I can’t execute only 2 selected tests by using tag option.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brahim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@Brahim](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Brahim)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 15:01 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/6 "2022-04-05T15:01:01Z")

</div>

Try this : create a .txt file, inside write paths of your tests, and execute with this command :  
robot -d results -A FILENAME.txt

Try it maybe it’ll work

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Centaure13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Centaure13](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Centaure13)\
**Post date:** [5 April 2022 15:06 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/7 "2022-04-05T15:06:10Z")

</div>

Always the same results … ☹

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Centaure13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Centaure13](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/Centaure13)\
**Post date:** [8 April 2022 12:42 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/8 "2022-04-08T12:42:51Z")

</div>

Further information : it’s not only tag command line which does’nt work but simply command line like “robot MyTest.robot”… It’s more disturbing… ☹

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![bouchra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@bouchra](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/bouchra)\
**Post date:** [11 April 2022 15:28 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/error-message-webdriverexception-message-ie-friendly-error-message-walkround/3561/9 "2022-04-11T15:28:55Z")

</div>

To run your test suite try this command:  
python -m robot MyTest.robot  
NB: you should be on the directory of your robot file