diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueDatabaseFactory.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueDatabaseFactory.php
index c4e5b3ba13371a98bbbdfc086f70a7318ee244c1..45d32f09efb83219d86f130b639ca3615e0e50a5 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueDatabaseFactory.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueDatabaseFactory.php
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 use Drupal\Core\Database\Connection;
 
 /**
- * Defines the key/value store factory for the database backend.
+ * Defines the queue factory for the database backend.
  */
-class QueueDatabaseFactory {
+class QueueDatabaseFactory implements QueueFactoryInterface {
 
   /**
    * The database connection.
@@ -20,20 +20,14 @@ class QueueDatabaseFactory {
    * Constructs this factory object.
    *
    * @param \Drupal\Core\Database\Connection $connection
-   *   The Connection object containing the key-value tables.
+   *   The Connection object containing the queue table.
    */
   public function __construct(Connection $connection) {
     $this->connection = $connection;
   }
 
   /**
-   * Constructs a new queue object for a given name.
-   *
-   * @param string $name
-   *   The name of the collection holding key and value pairs.
-   *
-   * @return \Drupal\Core\Queue\DatabaseQueue
-   *   A key/value store implementation for the given $collection.
+   * {@inheritdoc}
    */
   public function get($name) {
     return new DatabaseQueue($name, $this->connection);
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueFactoryInterface.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueFactoryInterface.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..580d958ee879db4c83c8a4a9b412933e391c9c7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Queue/QueueFactoryInterface.php
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Queue;
+
+/**
+ * An interface defining queue factory classes.
+ */
+interface QueueFactoryInterface {
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs a new queue object for a given name.
+   *
+   * @param string $name
+   *   The name of the queue.
+   *
+   * @return \Drupal\Core\Queue\QueueInterface
+   *   The queue object.
+   */
+  public function get($name);
+
+}