diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
index 1fadea97fd..610939c6a9 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver
 
 import java.io.File
 import java.net.URL
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
+import java.nio.file.{Files, Paths}
 import java.sql.{Date, DriverManager, Statement}
 
 import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ class HiveThriftBinaryServerSuite extends HiveThriftJdbcTest {
   override def mode: ServerMode.Value = ServerMode.binary
 
   private def withCLIServiceClient(f: ThriftCLIServiceClient => Unit): Unit = {
-    // Transport creation logics below mimics HiveConnection.createBinaryTransport
+    // Transport creation logic below mimics HiveConnection.createBinaryTransport
     val rawTransport = new TSocket("localhost", serverPort)
     val user = System.getProperty("user.name")
     val transport = PlainSaslHelper.getPlainTransport(user, "anonymous", rawTransport)
@@ -391,10 +393,10 @@ abstract class HiveThriftJdbcTest extends HiveThriftServer2Test {
     val statements = connections.map(_.createStatement())
 
     try {
-      statements.zip(fs).map { case (s, f) => f(s) }
+      statements.zip(fs).foreach { case (s, f) => f(s) }
     } finally {
-      statements.map(_.close())
-      connections.map(_.close())
+      statements.foreach(_.close())
+      connections.foreach(_.close())
     }
   }
 
@@ -433,15 +435,32 @@ abstract class HiveThriftServer2Test extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll wit
       ConfVars.HIVE_SERVER2_THRIFT_HTTP_PORT
     }
 
+    val driverClassPath = {
+      // Writes a temporary log4j.properties and prepend it to driver classpath, so that it
+      // overrides all other potential log4j configurations contained in other dependency jar files.
+      val tempLog4jConf = Utils.createTempDir().getCanonicalPath
+
+      Files.write(
+        Paths.get(s"$tempLog4jConf/log4j.properties"),
+        """log4j.rootCategory=INFO, console
+          |log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+          |log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+          |log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+          |log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{1}: %m%n
+        """.stripMargin.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
+
+      tempLog4jConf + File.pathSeparator + sys.props("java.class.path")
+    }
+
     s"""$startScript
        |  --master local
-       |  --hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console
        |  --hiveconf ${ConfVars.METASTORECONNECTURLKEY}=$metastoreJdbcUri
        |  --hiveconf ${ConfVars.METASTOREWAREHOUSE}=$warehousePath
        |  --hiveconf ${ConfVars.HIVE_SERVER2_THRIFT_BIND_HOST}=localhost
        |  --hiveconf ${ConfVars.HIVE_SERVER2_TRANSPORT_MODE}=$mode
        |  --hiveconf $portConf=$port
-       |  --driver-class-path ${sys.props("java.class.path")}
+       |  --driver-class-path $driverClassPath
+       |  --driver-java-options -Dlog4j.debug
        |  --conf spark.ui.enabled=false
      """.stripMargin.split("\\s+").toSeq
   }