diff --git a/component/componenttest/shutdown_verifier.go b/component/componenttest/shutdown_verifier.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b48a06e5979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component/componenttest/shutdown_verifier.go
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package componenttest
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"go.uber.org/zap"
+
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configerror"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configmodels"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer/consumertest"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer/pdata"
+)
+
+func createSingleSpanTrace() pdata.Traces {
+	d := pdata.NewTraces()
+	d.ResourceSpans().Resize(1)
+	d.ResourceSpans().At(0).InstrumentationLibrarySpans().Resize(1)
+	d.ResourceSpans().At(0).InstrumentationLibrarySpans().At(0).Spans().Resize(1)
+	span := d.ResourceSpans().At(0).InstrumentationLibrarySpans().At(0).Spans().At(0)
+	span.SetName("test span")
+	return d
+}
+
+func verifyTraceProcessorDoesntProduceAfterShutdown(t *testing.T, factory component.ProcessorFactory, cfg configmodels.Processor) {
+	// Create a processor and output its produce to a sink.
+	nextSink := new(consumertest.TracesSink)
+	processor, err := factory.CreateTracesProcessor(
+		context.Background(),
+		component.ProcessorCreateParams{Logger: zap.NewNop()},
+		cfg,
+		nextSink,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		if err == configerror.ErrDataTypeIsNotSupported {
+			return
+		}
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	}
+	err = processor.Start(context.Background(), NewNopHost())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Send some traces to the processor.
+	const generatedCount = 10
+	for i := 0; i < generatedCount; i++ {
+		processor.ConsumeTraces(context.Background(), createSingleSpanTrace())
+	}
+
+	// Now shutdown the processor.
+	err = processor.Shutdown(context.Background())
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// The Shutdown() is done. It means the processor must have sent everything we
+	// gave it to the next sink.
+	assert.EqualValues(t, generatedCount, nextSink.SpansCount())
+}
+
+func VerifyProcessorShutdown(t *testing.T, factory component.ProcessorFactory, cfg configmodels.Processor) {
+	verifyTraceProcessorDoesntProduceAfterShutdown(t, factory, cfg)
+	// TODO: add metrics and logs verification.
+	// TODO: add other shutdown verifications.
+}
diff --git a/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor.go b/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor.go
index 66fbdcf53b8..4374f4837ed 100644
--- a/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor.go
+++ b/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor.go
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ func (bp *batchProcessor) Start(context.Context, component.Host) error {
 // Shutdown is invoked during service shutdown.
 func (bp *batchProcessor) Shutdown(context.Context) error {
 	bp.cancel()
+
+	// Wait until current batch is drained.
 	<-bp.done
 	return nil
 }
@@ -132,6 +134,7 @@ func (bp *batchProcessor) startProcessingCycle() {
 				// make it cancellable using the context that Shutdown gets as a parameter
 				bp.sendItems(statTimeoutTriggerSend)
 			}
+			// Indicate that we finished draining.
 			close(bp.done)
 			return
 		case item := <-bp.newItem:
diff --git a/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor_test.go b/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor_test.go
index b21bbe3dff8..9a6b95ec3c7 100644
--- a/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor_test.go
+++ b/processor/batchprocessor/batch_processor_test.go
@@ -689,3 +689,8 @@ func logsReceivedByName(lds []pdata.Logs) map[string]pdata.LogRecord {
 	}
 	return logsReceivedByName
 }
+
+func TestShutdown(t *testing.T) {
+	factory := NewFactory()
+	componenttest.VerifyProcessorShutdown(t, factory, factory.CreateDefaultConfig())
+}