Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for assigning a task. The method may include: generating a testing task list based on a received testing task request, the testing task list including at least one testing task; acquiring a currently assigned task of at least one terminal; and adopting, in response to calculating load information of the currently assigned task executed by all terminals, a different task assignment rule based on the load information to assign a testing task in the testing task list to each terminal, the load information including an estimated time consumption and an amount of generated data of the currently assigned task executed by the respective terminals.