Ensuring Safety-Critical Software is Built on a Solid Foundation

We provide the world’s most rigorous compiler validation and library test suites, helping industries achieve compliance with absolute confidence.

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The world’s most rigorous compiler validation and library test suites

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Founded in 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A world built on code
needs Confidence by Design

At Solid Sands, our mission is to ensure that safety-critical software is built on a solid foundation.
With SuperTest™ and SuperGuard™, the world’s most rigorous compiler and library testing solutions, we help our clients eliminate uncertainty, ensure quality, and create the safest, most reliable software.

Driven by relentless precision, deep expertise, and an unwavering commitment to quality, we give our clients more than just testing tools – we give them Confidence by Design.

Solid Sands – Confidence by Design

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Industries We Serve

Helping different industries achieve compliance with absolute confidence

Latest Insights

Only What You Use: Defining the Library Safety Envelope

Continuous Qualification means treating compiler and library qualification as an ongoing engineering process. But what exactly needs qualifying in a library? Certainly not...

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Staying Inside the Compiler’s Safety Envelope

Continuous Qualification of the toolchain is the idea that compiler and library qualification is an ongoing engineering process. Its goal is to ensure...

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Continuous Qualification

In safety-critical software development, qualification is never a one-time event. Yet in practice, compiler and library qualification is often treated as a one-time...

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The invisible tools ADAS can’t live without

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) bring increasingly sophisticated software into vehicles, but much of what makes these systems work is hidden from view....

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Flying Beyond the “Black Box” of Trust

There are no intrinsic barriers to using open-source compilers in safety-critical domains. With the right process, any high-quality compiler can become a trusted...

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The Black Box of Trust: Qualifying Open-Source Compilers for Safety-Critical Use

In safety-critical software development, trust is earned, not assumed, and must be built on evidence. Open-source compilers such as GCC and Clang are widely...

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Avionics and the compiler trust issue

In avionics and aerospace software development, trust alone is not enough. Compilers are sophisticated tools, but because even the smallest defect in generated...

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Fighting the Multi-Threaded Dragon

The <threads.h> header, introduced in the C11 standard, provides the necessary programming interfaces to develop multi-threaded C code. Multi-threading breaks strict sequential execution...

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The atomic journey

Staying on top of state-of-the-art software testing methods is important for our work on functional safety. Therefore, innovation is one of the four...

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