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"Geat Question! I have no official research to back this up but what I do have is lots of annoyed users during testing when it comes to this. I often hear the comment "ugh I hate this, why do I have to enter it twice" or something along…"

"I would do somewhere between 8-10. But ideally as Cam said the probability of getting most of answers repeated is High after 7 or 8."

"If we talk about usability tests, Nielsen has an interest article "Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users". Just google it. There are also other studies for card sort or other usability methods. My experience says that 5-6 users is enough…"

"hi i always use 8-10 users, if some problems are not identified and i find it important i include it in a report my self. But usually after 5 users i have most of the problems on the site identified. But there is also a matter of quality and number…"

"Good comments here. I use a combination Uservue (combined with Morae), and Usertesting.com for live sites. The latter doesn't let you define specific testers. There's also OptimalSort's Chalkmark and Treesort for earlier testing on…"

"Russell - We posted a recent update to OpenHallway.com, there's a demo video now that people can watch to see how it works. We have a free 30-day trial and you can cancel at anytime, and yes, pricing is in USD> Thanks, Mick "

"I haven't used this, but you might want to have a look: http://www.robotreplay.com/"

"Just an update on my last post, we've launched OpenHallway. It's our first release, so go easy on the usability of our tool :) - we plan to do several usability improvements on our own tool in the coming weeks. The recording technology is…"