The invention discloses a cable type measurement system and measurement method for industrial robot spatial pose precision and track measurement. The measurement system comprises an industrial robot, and a measurement assembly comprises a positioning disc, measurement adapters, cable encoders, data lines, a data acquisition card and a computing terminal. According to the measurement system, the cable encoders are used as main bodies for measurement, test cable lengths of the cable encoders are used for being converted into point location coordinate value changes on a robot end effector, the measurement system is applicable to the industrial field, the service life of test equipment is long, the motion space of the robot is large, and the measured data accuracy is high. By the aid of the measurement system and the measurement method, poses of the robot can be measured in real time conveniently, the structure is simple, the motion space is large, and the precision is high.