Research notes, project stories, and field notes from Pepe Zamudio.https://pepezamudio.com/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/compas-and-room-to-take-risks/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/compas-and-room-to-take-risks/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.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://pepezamudio.com/blog/five-rejections-and-peer-review/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/five-rejections-and-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.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://pepezamudio.com/blog/when-the-input-is-a-conversation/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/when-the-input-is-a-conversation/How Fandango moved from generating structured files to testing stateful protocol exchanges, with FTP and DNS as examples.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://pepezamudio.com/blog/why-input-distribution-matters/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/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?Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://pepezamudio.com/blog/why-people-call-me-pepe/https://pepezamudio.com/blog/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.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT