Before any actual evaluation sessions are conducted you should run a pilot test as a way of evaluating your evaluation session and to help to ensure that it will work.
(Stone, Jarret, Woodroffe, Minocha. User Interface Design and Evaluation p503)

A workshop attended by users and developers who identify usability requirements that can be tested later in the development process.
“Requirements Meeting”. UsabilityNet. 2006. http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/requirements.htm

During a usability test, the tester has an expert user (in the task domain) sit next to him/her and explain the test user’s behavior to the tester.

The usability report accounts for what happened during the test, and is a tool for guiding the design team.
(Brown. Communication Design, p 73)

Two friends interviewed as a pair by a moderator following an outline or lightly scripted guide.
(Laurel. Design Research, p 25)

This is a very young but rapidly growing variation that marries digital ethnography focused on daily activities and small details of cultural significance with a futures perspective that looks at the major trends influencing and changing culture as a whole.
(Laurel. Design Research, p 27)

Paper mockups are slightly higher-quality (although still fairly rough in comparison to the end product), rapidly rendered representations of your major design decisions.
(Brinck, Gergle. Usability for the Web, p 218)

Online discussion groups attempts to conduct various interview techniques virtually.
(Laurel. Design Research, p 25)

Design probes are tools for understanding human phenomena and exploring new design
opportunities. Probes can for example be diaries with questions and tasks for every day.
N?kki, Virtanen. Utilising social media tools in user-centred design.