Chromium is the open source browser from which Google Chrome derives. Browsers share most of the code and functionality. However, they differ in terms of license, and Chromium does not support Flash, does not have an automatic update system, and does not collect usage and crash statistics. We will see that these differences do not affect the potential of the project in the least and that, thanks to Chromium, we can perform many interesting tasks within our Lambda functions.

Selenium is a well-known framework dedicated to testing web applications. We are particularly interested in Selenium WebDriver, a tool that allows to control all the main browsers available today, including Chrome/Chromium.

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