# Check and freeze complete label rules

Check independently supplied label decisions, inspect the software result and freeze the complete release for separate review. These checks do not print a label.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/automation/guides/labels-examples

Audience: Author

Check independently supplied label decisions, inspect the software result and freeze the complete release for separate review. These checks do not print a label.

## Check and freeze complete label rules

1. **Load the current LabelRules draft**

   Load the current LabelRules draft

   Read the complete label rules and independently supplied expected answers. These software checks do not send anything to a printer.

2. **Check the saved label answers**

   Check the saved label answers

   Run the label decision and renderer against the saved independent expected answers. Resolve a mismatch before freezing a release.

3. **Explain why the label answers are ready**

   Explain why the label answers are ready

   Explain how the expected label decisions were checked against the business requirement.

4. **Confirm the complete label answers**

   Confirm the complete label answers

   Confirm that you checked both the independently expected answers and the saved software results.

5. **Freeze the checked label release**

   Freeze the checked label release

   Keep the complete checked label rules and their original results in one candidate for separate review.

6. **Prepare the frozen label cases for review**

   Prepare the frozen label cases for review

   Retain the complete independent expected answers for a different person to check.

[Watch or practise this chapter](https://help.smartfact.ai/automation/demo?guide=labels-examples&chapter=complete-check&audience=office)

A separate reviewer must check the frozen cases and verify the candidate before release approval.