Notes from
the work.
Research decisions, testing ideas, and the parts of academic life that shape both.
Compás, and room to take a research risk
Our feature-focused testing paper was accepted at ASE 2026. The result also made me think about how funding shapes the questions a research group can afford to ask.
Read article ↗Five rejections, and what I want from peer review
A follow-up to my ICSE post: contradictory reviews, rebuttals, and the limits of what an author can know about a programme committee's decision.
Read article ↗When the input is a conversation
How Fandango moved from generating structured files to testing stateful protocol exchanges, with FTP and DNS as examples.
Read article ↗Why input distribution matters
The question behind my ISSTA doctoral symposium paper and UniFuzz: what parts of an input space does a grammar-based fuzzer actually visit?
Read article ↗Why people call me Pepe
My papers say José Antonio Zamudio Amaya. Most people know me as Pepe. Here is the story behind the name—and why I use it here.
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