Merge branch 'star-projects' into star-projects2, bringing star-projects onto master

test-playwright/testUtils.ts

@@ -145,9 +145,10 @@ export async function generateNewEthrUser(page: Page): Promise<string> {
 }
 
 // Function to generate a random string of specified length
+// Note that this only generates up to 10 characters
 export async function generateRandomString(length: number): Promise<string> {
   return Math.random()
-    .toString(36)
+    .toString(36) // base 36 only generates up to 10 characters
     .substring(2, 2 + length);
 }
 
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ export async function createUniqueStringsArray(
   count: number
 ): Promise<string[]> {
   const stringsArray: string[] = [];
-  const stringLength = 16;
+  const stringLength = 5; // max of 10; see generateRandomString
 
   for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
     let randomString = await generateRandomString(stringLength);