The invention discloses large-size reinforced soil shear strength testing equipment, and a testing method. The large-size reinforced soil shear strength testing equipment comprises a control unit, a pressure loading unit and a shear box assembly; the control unit comprises an industrial computer A, a normal force motor, a horizontal force motor, a microcomputer control system, a normal force loading driving device, a horizontal force loading driving device, a normal force motor driving device and a horizontal force motor driving device; the pressure loading unit comprises a base, a slide way,a normal force loading shaft rod and a horizontal force loading shaft rod, and an outer blocking piece is arranged on the slide way; and the shearing box assembly is arranged in the outer blocking piece. In addition, the invention also provides a testing method adopting the equipment. The equipment can realize a large-size direct shear test of reinforced soil and obtain a comprehensive evaluationresult of a large-size soil sample shear strength test, has the advantages of reasonable evaluation parameters, high accuracy and high efficiency, and can meet the requirements of a multi-parameter complex test scheme.