The invention discloses an optimization method of capturing power consumption in a scan test. The optimization method of capturing power consumption in the scan test comprises the following steps: generating a netlist with a scan chain; grouping gating control clock units; designing a power constrain unit; combining with the generated netlist with the scan chain, conducting chip layout design which comprises a floorpan, a layout, a clock tree sythesis and wiring; reading a gate-level netlist with a scan structure, a process library, a timing sequence constrain file and a test protocol into an automatic test vector generating tool after the chip layout design is completed, conducting testability design rule checking, and generating a test vector; and conducting gate-level simulation to the test vector generated. By means of the optimization method of capturing the power consumption in the scan test, the capturing power consumption in a test process can be reduced significantly, the reduction of coverage or the sharp increase of the quantity of test vectors is not generated, changing of a test design process is needless, and realization is easy.