WebDriver not opening URL - selenium

Question

I'm very new to selenium so I'm having trouble spotting the problem with my code. I'm using a webDriver backed selenium object, it starts the driver but never opens the URL and the driver just closes after a few moments. The last time this happened to me it was just because I had left "http" out of the URL. So what's causing it this time?
public void testImages() throws Exception {
Selenium selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, "http://www.testsite.com/login");
System.out.println(selenium.getXpathCount("//img"));
}
The setup looks like:
public void setUp() throws Exception {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\User1\\Desktop\\chromedriver_win_16.0.902.0\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
Thread.sleep(2000);
}
The teardown method just consists of driver.close().
I'm using selenium 2.14 and the testNG Eclipse plug-in.

Answer 1

You might need to do the following
selenium.open("www.testsite.com/login");
Check out this example from the selenium site:
// You may use any WebDriver implementation. Firefox is used here as an example
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
// A "base url", used by selenium to resolve relative URLs
String baseUrl = "http://www.google.com";
// Create the Selenium implementation
Selenium selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, baseUrl);
// Perform actions with selenium
selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
selenium.type("name=q", "cheese");
selenium.click("name=btnG");
// Get the underlying WebDriver implementation back. This will refer to the
// same WebDriver instance as the "driver" variable above.
WebDriver driverInstance = ((WebDriverBackedSelenium) selenium).getUnderlyingWebDriver();
//Finally, close the browser. Call stop on the WebDriverBackedSelenium instance
//instead of calling driver.quit(). Otherwise, the JVM will continue running after
//the browser has been closed.
selenium.stop();
link to selenium

Answer 2

You would need to add driver.get(url) like below.
public void setUp() throws Exception {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\User1\\Desktop\\chromedriver_win_16.0.902.0\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.testsite.com/login");
}