The invention discloses a method and a system for testing parking brake performance, which overcome the defect of the method needing to build a parking slope and directly measure the traction force of a parked vehicle, a force cell is connected with the tested vehicle through a wire rope, traction force which accounts for 20 percent of the overall weight of the tested vehicle or 15 percent when the overall weight of the vehicle is less than 1.2 times as heavy as the curb weight is applied on the vehicle according to standard specifications, the parking brake performance is acceptable when the tested vehicle stays still, otherwise is unacceptable, and the acceptability or unacceptability of the parking brake performance can be judged on an on-site screen or remotely transmitted to a computer and judged in the form of reading. The testing system is small and does not require the building of a special-purposed slope, thus dispensing with land occupation and capital expenditure needed by the slope method to build the testing slope and creating favorable conditions for various vehicle testing stations to carry out the testing operation. Because the testing system adopts a zigbee wireless communication mode for the first time, the testing system reduces electricity consumption, is light, and does not have external cables.