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Add 3 more AL/BC patterns from CURABIS Academy testing course material

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Third batch from CURABIS ApS: item-ledger-entry document-no lookup after Ship-and-Invoice posting, TestPage.Visible()/.Enabled() as the mechanism for verifying field UI state, and LibraryUtility.GenerateGUID() for collision-free test fixture values.
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bc-version: [all]
domain: testing
keywords: [generateguid, library-utility, test-fixtures, uniqueness, copystr, maxstrlen]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
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# Generate unique test fixture values with LibraryUtility.GenerateGUID()
## Description
A fixture helper that assigns a hardcoded literal to a primary-key or descriptive field collides the moment two tests, or two runs of the same test, create that fixture without cleanup, and a literal longer than the field allows raises a truncation or insert error. `LibraryUtility.GenerateGUID()` returns a value that is unique per call and long enough to guarantee no collision; paired with `CopyStr(..., 1, MaxStrLen(Field))` it fits any fixed-length `Code` or `Text` field safely.
## Best Practice
For a fixture field that must be unique across test runs, assign `CopyStr(LibraryUtility.GenerateGUID(), 1, MaxStrLen(TargetField))` rather than a literal string.
See sample: `use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
Hardcoding a fixture value such as `'TEST001'` or a short descriptive literal. It collides across parallel or repeated test runs, and a value longer than the field's length limit is either silently truncated or raises an insert error.
See sample: `use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.bad.al`.