diff --git a/test/abstractarray.jl b/test/abstractarray.jl
index 178f2863690ffe..9bdc94ab631ca4 100644
--- a/test/abstractarray.jl
+++ b/test/abstractarray.jl
@@ -563,6 +563,10 @@ function test_cat(::Type{TestAbstractArray})
 
     # 18395
     @test isa(Any["a" 5; 2//3 1.0][2,1], Rational{Int})
+
+    # 13665, 19038
+    @test @inferred(hcat([1.0 2.0], 3))::Array{Float64,2} == [1.0 2.0 3.0]
+    @test @inferred(vcat([1.0, 2.0], 3))::Array{Float64,1} == [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]
 end
 
 function test_ind2sub(::Type{TestAbstractArray})
diff --git a/test/sparse/sparse.jl b/test/sparse/sparse.jl
index 61596370f8bcfc..67d400dca329a1 100644
--- a/test/sparse/sparse.jl
+++ b/test/sparse/sparse.jl
@@ -1659,3 +1659,6 @@ let X = sparse([1 -1; -1 1])
         @test Y / 1 == Y
     end
 end
+
+# 19304
+@inferred hcat(sparse(rand(3,4)), eye(3,3))