This thesis describes the effect of dislocation slip on superplastic deformation of AZ31 magnesium alloy. Through two different routes of ECAE (equal channel angular extrusion), two types of specimens having the same grain size but different texture were obtained. One is favorable for basal slip and the other is not. Under the same condition of deformation, the strain rate sensitivity and contribution of grain boundary sliding to total elongation in these two different specimens are almost the same. As for elongation, not much difference was found. The present results demonstrate that the relationship between dislocation slip and grain boundary sliding in superplastic AZ31 magnesium alloy is non-obvious.