Display Frequent Bugs · AdTech Integration Guides

This section describes frequent bugs in the ad integration that you should specifically test against.

General

The following table describes general bugs that apply to both display and in-stream ads.

Category	description	how to test
Configuration	wrong/old ad configuration loaded	check if the version number in the path of the loaded configuration matches
IDFA	change in IDFA does only become effective after restart of the app	reset IDFA and check if the change is effective in the next ad request
	IDFA is not passed in the ad requests	enable IDFA and check if IDFA is passed with every ad request
	IDFA is passed with hyphens	check that IDFA only contains `[0-9a-zA-Z]`
Showroom	Showroom deeplink is not working	check that showroom deelinking is working by opening the app via the Showroom
	not all targeting values are passed	check that all normal targeting is passed in addition to the showroom key-values

The following table describes frequent bugs in the display ad integration.

Category	description	how to test
Capping	pre-/interstitial capping not working	load multiple pre-/interstitials by navigating the app, assure the set capping is working by counting the requests
Targeting	not all targeting key-values are passed	check if all targeting key-values from the ad configuration are passed
	wrong/non existing ad sizes	check that the request sizes of the ad slots match the ones described in the documentation
	wrong/non existing adunit-ids	load QA Tool, check that ads adunit matches the current page
Rendering	spacing/rendering problems on multislots	load QA Tool multiple times on a single multislot, check that there is no spacing problems or incompletely rendered ads when the ad size changes
	ad is not completely visible	load QA Tool or any other test ad, check that it is fully visible
Request logic	ad slots do not reload on page reload	load QA Tool, reload the page, check that counter in corner of ad is increased
	multiple ad requests for a single ad slot	load QA Tool, check that counter in the corner is increasing by one per ad of the tested slot size loaded.

Category	description	how to test
Player behaviour	wrapper/redirect campaigns are not played	load a test configuration containing wrapper campaigns and check if the ads are displayed
	all ad blocks are loaded on the beginning of the video	check that each block is only loaded when the block is reached/skipped to
	ad is not pausing when leaving the app	check that the ad is pausing by turning the volume on and leaving the app
Tracking	not all tracking nodes are fired	check if all tracking URLs in the returned VAST are requested while playing the ad
	multiple trackings are fired e.g. multiple play trackings	check that each tracking URL is only requested once while playing/clicking/resuming the ad