Our Company
Our Company
Solid Sands is the leading provider of compiler and library testing and qualification technology in North-America, Europe and Asia.
Our mission is to put quality into C. We do that by improving the quality of C and C++ compilers, libraries and analysis tools, and by enabling their safe and secure use. With the quality level of our test suites, we stay at the forefront of software testing and qualification to help you achieve ISO compliance and functional safety standard requirements.
Founded in 2014, Solid Sands is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With partners all over the world we serve both leading innovative companies in the semiconductor, IP and security industries as well as safety-critical companies in automotive, robotics, railway and medical.
Our SuperTest Compiler Test and Validation Suite provides a complete validation environment which enables customers to achieve the software quality level demanded by the ISO language and functional safety standards.
Meanwhile, our SuperGuard C Library Safety Qualification Suite is a requirements-based test suite for the C standard library with full traceability between the requirements derived from the ISO C language definition and the individual library tests.
The history of Solid Sands
May 2023
SuperTest Vermeer Release Update 4
December 2022
SuperGuard Amsterdam Release Update 1
Support for all versions of the C standard library
January 2022
SuperTest Vermeer Release Update 3
Extended by 3000 new tests and support for C++20
December 2021
SuperGuard Amsterdam Release
We have chosen the name of the Dutch city Amsterdam
for this first major release as that is where SuperGuard
was born and where it will continue to grow.
June 2021
SuperGuard Introduction
Following a high demand from the market, Solid Sands launches a new product. SuperGuard is a requirements-based test suite for the C standard library to support library qualification.
November 2020
SuperTest Vermeer Release Update 2
More than 2200 new tests, mostly in the C and C++ library suites and much more
February 2020
SuperTest Vermeer Release Update 1
Fully updated calling convention tester, new test suite for C18, SuperTest GUI and more
November 2019
Solid Sands 5 Year Anniversary
Johannes Vermeer is known for his photorealistic attention to detail using pigments such as lapis lazuli to create a world more perfect than the real one. It is still a mystery how he was able to achieve the masterly treatment of light and color in his work, since the appreciation of his paintings came only two centuries after his death. SuperTest aims to attain the same perfection as Vermeer, but without the mystery.
May 2019
SuperTest Vermeer Release
October 2018
SuperTest Mondrian Release Update 3
Native Windows tools for SuperTest, section traceability tool, Jenkins integration and more
October 2017
SuperTest Mondrian Release Update 2
C++14 test suite, CGtrainer suite for initial code generator development, size tracking and more
October 2016
SuperTest Mondrian Release Update 1
C11 test suite, extended C99 math library testing and more
January 2016
SuperTest Mondrian Release
With this new Release of SuperTest Solid Sands celebrates its Dutch heritage by highlighting one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, Piet Mondrian. Mondrian is known for his clarity and strive for perfection. Solid Sands is motivated to achieve the same level of excellence in SuperTest.
“We are very proud to be the first on the market with a MISRA-C conformance suite”
January 2015
SuperTest Rembrandt Release Update 3
New test files for C++11, extended testing of C++ Argument Dependent Lookup and more
November 2014
Solid Sands Starts
Solid Sands starts in November 2014 and has its headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our mission is to put quality into C. We do that by improving the quality of C and C++ compilers, libraries and analysis tools, and their safe and secure use, with the best possible test and validation suite.
1984
SuperTest Started
When SuperTest started, there was only K&R C. As ISO standardization progressed, SuperTest was extended to track the latest developments. We plugged holes in the suite by adding tests for errors not initially found. We created generators to add systematic testing for complex parameter spaces. SuperTest is now the most complete validation suite for C and C++ available.
Solid Sands: making the world a safer place