diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/HadoopFsRelationTest.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/HadoopFsRelationTest.scala
index d23b66a5300e7..80aff446bc24b 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/HadoopFsRelationTest.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/HadoopFsRelationTest.scala
@@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ import java.io.File
 import scala.util.Random
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.{JobContext, TaskAttemptContext}
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputCommitter
-import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetOutputCommitter
 
 import org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil
 import org.apache.spark.sql._
@@ -783,52 +780,6 @@ abstract class HadoopFsRelationTest extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with Tes
     }
   }
 
-  test("SPARK-8578 specified custom output committer will not be used to append data") {
-    withSQLConf(SQLConf.FILE_COMMIT_PROTOCOL_CLASS.key ->
-        classOf[SQLHadoopMapReduceCommitProtocol].getCanonicalName) {
-      val extraOptions = Map[String, String](
-        SQLConf.OUTPUT_COMMITTER_CLASS.key -> classOf[AlwaysFailOutputCommitter].getName,
-        // Since Parquet has its own output committer setting, also set it
-        // to AlwaysFailParquetOutputCommitter at here.
-        "spark.sql.parquet.output.committer.class" ->
-          classOf[AlwaysFailParquetOutputCommitter].getName
-      )
-
-      val df = spark.range(1, 10).toDF("i")
-      withTempPath { dir =>
-        df.write.mode("append").format(dataSourceName).save(dir.getCanonicalPath)
-        // Because there data already exists,
-        // this append should succeed because we will use the output committer associated
-        // with file format and AlwaysFailOutputCommitter will not be used.
-        df.write.mode("append").format(dataSourceName).save(dir.getCanonicalPath)
-        checkAnswer(
-          spark.read
-            .format(dataSourceName)
-            .option("dataSchema", df.schema.json)
-            .options(extraOptions)
-            .load(dir.getCanonicalPath),
-          df.union(df))
-
-        // This will fail because AlwaysFailOutputCommitter is used when we do append.
-        intercept[Exception] {
-          df.write.mode("overwrite")
-            .options(extraOptions).format(dataSourceName).save(dir.getCanonicalPath)
-        }
-      }
-      withTempPath { dir =>
-        // Because there is no existing data,
-        // this append will fail because AlwaysFailOutputCommitter is used when we do append
-        // and there is no existing data.
-        intercept[Exception] {
-          df.write.mode("append")
-            .options(extraOptions)
-            .format(dataSourceName)
-            .save(dir.getCanonicalPath)
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
   test("SPARK-8887: Explicitly define which data types can be used as dynamic partition columns") {
     val df = Seq(
       (1, "v1", Array(1, 2, 3), Map("k1" -> "v1"), Tuple2(1, "4")),
@@ -898,27 +849,3 @@ abstract class HadoopFsRelationTest extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with Tes
     }
   }
 }
-
-// This class is used to test SPARK-8578. We should not use any custom output committer when
-// we actually append data to an existing dir.
-class AlwaysFailOutputCommitter(
-    outputPath: Path,
-    context: TaskAttemptContext)
-  extends FileOutputCommitter(outputPath, context) {
-
-  override def commitJob(context: JobContext): Unit = {
-    sys.error("Intentional job commitment failure for testing purpose.")
-  }
-}
-
-// This class is used to test SPARK-8578. We should not use any custom output committer when
-// we actually append data to an existing dir.
-class AlwaysFailParquetOutputCommitter(
-    outputPath: Path,
-    context: TaskAttemptContext)
-  extends ParquetOutputCommitter(outputPath, context) {
-
-  override def commitJob(context: JobContext): Unit = {
-    sys.error("Intentional job commitment failure for testing purpose.")
-  }
-}