diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/export/SimpleSpanProcessor.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/src/export/SimpleSpanProcessor.ts
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2019, 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
+ *
+ *      https://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.
+ */
+
+import { TraceOptions } from '@opentelemetry/types';
+import { SpanProcessor } from '../SpanProcessor';
+import { SpanExporter } from './SpanExporter';
+import { Span } from '../Span';
+
+/**
+ * An implementation of the {@link SpanProcessor} that converts the {@link Span}
+ * to {@link ReadableSpan} and passes it to the configured exporter.
+ *
+ * Only spans that are sampled are converted.
+ */
+export class SimpleSpanProcessor implements SpanProcessor {
+  constructor(private readonly _exporter: SpanExporter) {}
+
+  // does nothing.
+  onStart(span: Span): void {}
+
+  onEnd(span: Span): void {
+    if (span.context().traceOptions !== TraceOptions.SAMPLED) return;
+    this._exporter.export([span.toReadableSpan()], () => {});
+  }
+
+  shutdown(): void {
+    this._exporter.shutdown();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/export/SimpleSpanProcessor.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-basic-tracer/test/export/SimpleSpanProcessor.test.ts
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2019, 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
+ *
+ *      https://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.
+ */
+
+import * as assert from 'assert';
+import { SimpleSpanProcessor } from '../../src/export/SimpleSpanProcessor';
+import { Span, BasicTracer } from '../../src';
+import { SpanExporter } from '../../src/export/SpanExporter';
+import { ReadableSpan } from '../../src/export/ReadableSpan';
+import { SpanContext, SpanKind, TraceOptions } from '@opentelemetry/types';
+import { NoopScopeManager } from '@opentelemetry/scope-base';
+
+class TestExporter implements SpanExporter {
+  spansDataList: ReadableSpan[] = [];
+  export(spans: ReadableSpan[]): void {
+    this.spansDataList.push(...spans);
+  }
+
+  shutdown(): void {
+    this.spansDataList = [];
+  }
+}
+
+describe('SimpleSpanProcessor', () => {
+  const tracer = new BasicTracer({
+    scopeManager: new NoopScopeManager(),
+  });
+  const exporter = new TestExporter();
+
+  describe('constructor', () => {
+    it('should create a SimpleSpanProcessor instance', () => {
+      const processor = new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter);
+      assert.ok(processor instanceof SimpleSpanProcessor);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('.onStart/.onEnd/.shutdown', () => {
+    it('should handle span started and ended when SAMPLED', () => {
+      const processor = new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter);
+      const spanContext: SpanContext = {
+        traceId: 'a3cda95b652f4a1592b449d5929fda1b',
+        spanId: '5e0c63257de34c92',
+        traceOptions: TraceOptions.SAMPLED,
+      };
+      const span = new Span(tracer, 'span-name', spanContext, SpanKind.CLIENT);
+      processor.onStart(span);
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 0);
+
+      processor.onEnd(span);
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 1);
+
+      processor.shutdown();
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 0);
+    });
+
+    it('should handle span started and ended when UNSAMPLED', () => {
+      const processor = new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter);
+      const spanContext: SpanContext = {
+        traceId: 'a3cda95b652f4a1592b449d5929fda1b',
+        spanId: '5e0c63257de34c92',
+        traceOptions: TraceOptions.UNSAMPLED,
+      };
+      const span = new Span(tracer, 'span-name', spanContext, SpanKind.CLIENT);
+      processor.onStart(span);
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 0);
+
+      processor.onEnd(span);
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 0);
+
+      processor.shutdown();
+      assert.strictEqual(exporter.spansDataList.length, 0);
+    });
+  });
+});