diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/HiveTypeCoercionSuite.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/HiveTypeCoercionSuite.scala
index b56426617789e491297f4ef74f8095013ea8782a..93db33d44eb25a147d117bd2e0f99804b1d54fb3 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/HiveTypeCoercionSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/HiveTypeCoercionSuite.scala
@@ -271,4 +271,25 @@ class HiveTypeCoercionSuite extends PlanTest {
       Literal(true)
     )
   }
+
+  /**
+   * There are rules that need to not fire before child expressions get resolved.
+   * We use this test to make sure those rules do not fire early.
+   */
+  test("make sure rules do not fire early") {
+    // InConversion
+    val inConversion = HiveTypeCoercion.InConversion
+    ruleTest(inConversion,
+      In(UnresolvedAttribute("a"), Seq(Literal(1))),
+      In(UnresolvedAttribute("a"), Seq(Literal(1)))
+    )
+    ruleTest(inConversion,
+      In(Literal("test"), Seq(UnresolvedAttribute("a"), Literal(1))),
+      In(Literal("test"), Seq(UnresolvedAttribute("a"), Literal(1)))
+    )
+    ruleTest(inConversion,
+      In(Literal("a"), Seq(Literal(1), Literal("b"))),
+      In(Literal("a"), Seq(Cast(Literal(1), StringType), Cast(Literal("b"), StringType)))
+    )
+  }
 }
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
index 6d645393a6da1d7dd006d677355a26953134fbe6..bf9f2ecd51793ba5d016c6988b8c552d1066d6e9 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/SQLQuerySuite.scala
@@ -990,5 +990,21 @@ class SQLQuerySuite extends QueryTest {
         Timestamp.valueOf("1969-12-31 16:00:00"),
         String.valueOf("1969-12-31 16:00:00"),
         Timestamp.valueOf("1970-01-01 00:00:00")))
+
+  }
+
+  test("SPARK-8588 HiveTypeCoercion.inConversion fires too early") {
+    val df =
+      TestHive.createDataFrame(Seq((1, "2014-01-01"), (2, "2015-01-01"), (3, "2016-01-01")))
+    df.toDF("id", "date").registerTempTable("test_SPARK8588")
+    checkAnswer(
+      TestHive.sql(
+        """
+          |select id, concat(year(date))
+          |from test_SPARK8588 where concat(year(date), ' year') in ('2015 year', '2014 year')
+        """.stripMargin),
+      Row(1, "2014") :: Row(2, "2015") :: Nil
+    )
+    TestHive.dropTempTable("test_SPARK8588")
   }
 }