- use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.md: narrowed the
collision rule to primary-key/unique-lookup fields - an ordinary
descriptive field carries no uniqueness constraint, so a hardcoded
or deterministic value there isn't the anti-pattern (the article and
its al-testing-review.md worklist cue both said "primary-key or
descriptive field"). Also corrected GenerateRandomCode: it opens its
target table as a temporary RecordRef that starts and stays empty,
so its repeat/until loop always exits after one iteration and never
retries even within a single test run - the "non-colliding within a
test run" claim was false. It's the rightmost N characters of
GenerateGUID()'s sequential series, so a short field's value cycles
(Code[1] repeats every 10 calls, Code[2] every 100). Verified against
LibraryUtility.Codeunit.al in the BCApps reference clone.
- item-ledger-entry-document-no-follows-last-shipping-no: both
fixtures called FindSet() without consuming its optional Boolean,
which raises a runtime error on an empty result set - the opposite
of the article's own claimed "silently matches zero rows, no error"
behavior. Wrapped in `if ... then;` per the existing
guard-database-reads.good.al idiom.
- al-data-modeling-review.md: widened both not-applicable scope
clauses (intro and outcome) to include dimension wiring, posting-
routine structure, and Item Ledger Entry document-number lookups -
the leaf declared itself not-applicable outside setup/master/key/
numbering/block/audit surfaces despite having a targeted cue for
this PR's own new article.
- Converted this PR's 8 plain-backtick "See sample: `x.good.al`."
references (across all 4 new articles) to the READ-convention
markdown-link form required by Knowledge-Retrieval.ps1.
Rebased onto upstream/main (one conflict in al-data-modeling-review.md
intro wording, merged).
- use-generateguid-for-unique-test-fixture-values.md: GenerateGUID()
is a Code[10] number-series value, not a real GUID; truncating it
with CopyStr for a shorter field cuts off the changing digits. Point
to GenerateRandomCode/GenerateRandomCodeWithLength/GenerateRandomXMLText
instead, which verify uniqueness against the actual table.
- Split use-testpage-visible-enabled-to-verify-field-ui-state.md: drop
its editability claim (the sample opens with OpenView() and asserts
Enabled(), which verifies enabled state, not editability — Editable()
and Enabled() are distinct TestField methods). New companion article
use-testpage-editable-to-verify-field-editability.md covers Editable()
with OpenEdit() specifically.
- Wire GenerateGUID/CopyStr and TestPage Visible/Enabled/Editable cues
into al-testing-review.md, and the Item Ledger Entry/Last Shipping No.
posting cue into al-data-modeling-review.md.
The Item Ledger Entry article itself was independently verified against
current BCApps source and needs no changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
