Modern telecommunication switching systems are SPC (Stored Program Control) machines handling voice, data and other kinds of traffic, in an environment which tends to be fully digital switching and transmission. The throughput of such systems is determined by the real time capacity of its centralized or distributed control processors and by the traffic capacity of the switching network. Designers must verify the traffic and call processing capacity of the switching system and check its performance under traffic load before it is put into service. Verification of traffic and call processing capacity of switching systems is one of the problems treated by teletraffic studies; teletraffic studies are based on stochastic process, queueing theory, simulations and other quantitative methods of decision making. This paper reviews the general methodologies to evaluate the throughput and performance of the digital switching system. TDX-10, which is a fully digital switching system under development in ETRI, is employed to give illustrative examples of the methodologies discussed in this paper.