Pramod Dutta discusses 7 Playwright features senior SDETs use daily

Pramod Dutta, an SDET from Tekion, posted on LinkedIn "7 Playwright features senior SDETs use daily". The Playwright features, according to Pramod:"→ addLocatorHandler — auto-dismiss cookie banners, GDPR popups, session modals. One handler. Whole suite cleaner. Stop writing wrapper functions."→ browser.bind() — launch one browser. Let your test, Claude Code, and debugger all attach to it simultaneously. The debugging workflow that fixes "works on my machine" forever."→ URLSearchParams in request.get() — stop building query strings manually. Eliminates an entire bug class around URL encoding in API tests."→ expect.toPass() — polling-based assertions for state that converges over time. The right tool for 'this should eventually be true.' Not the same as expect(locator).toBeVisible(). Different problem, different solution."→ page.requestGC() — manually trigger garbage collection in the browser. The only Playwright tool that catches memory leaks before production. Used with WeakRef in…