diff --git a/case-lib/lib.sh b/case-lib/lib.sh
index 10bc44b3..15d122ba 100644
--- a/case-lib/lib.sh
+++ b/case-lib/lib.sh
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ func_lib_enable_pipewire()
     systemctl --user start wireplumber.service
 
     systemctl --user daemon-reload
+    sleep 3
 
     systemctl is-active --user --quiet pipewire{,-pulse}.{socket,service} && dlogi "Pipewire started"
     systemctl is-active --user --quiet wireplumber.service && dlogi "Wireplumber started"
@@ -615,6 +616,7 @@ func_lib_disable_pipewire()
 
     sudo systemctl --global mask wireplumber.service
     sudo systemctl --global mask pipewire{,-pulse}.{socket,service}
+    sleep 1
 
     if systemctl is-active --user --quiet wireplumber.service; then dlogi "Wireplumber not stopped"; else dlogi "Wireplumber stopped"; fi
     if systemctl is-active --user --quiet pipewire{,-pulse}.{socket,service}; then dlogi "Pipewire not stopped"; else dlogi "Pipewire stopped"; fi
@@ -957,15 +959,9 @@ aplay_opts()
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
         tinyplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS -D "$card_nr" -d "$dev_nr"  -i wav noise.wav
     elif [[ "$SOF_ALSA_TOOL" = "alsa" ]]; then
-        if [[ "$SOF_TEST_PIPEWIRE" == true ]]; then
-            dlogc "timeout -k $duration $duration aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS $*"  # option -d doesn't work with pipewire so we need timeout
-            # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-            timeout -k "$duration" "$duration" aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS "$@"
-        else
-            dlogc "aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS $*"
-            # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-            aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS "$@"
-        fi
+        dlogc "aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS $*"
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+        aplay $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_APLAY_OPTS "$@"
     else
         die "Unknown ALSA tool: ${SOF_ALSA_TOOL}"
     fi
@@ -982,20 +978,33 @@ arecord_opts()
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
         tinycap $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS "$file" -D "$card_nr" -d "$dev_nr" -c "$channel" -t "$duration" -r "$rate" -b "$format"
     elif [[ "$SOF_ALSA_TOOL" = "alsa" ]]; then
-        if [[ "$SOF_TEST_PIPEWIRE" == true ]]; then
-            dlogc "timeout -k $duration $duration arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS $*"  # option -d doesn't work with pipewire so we need timeout
-            # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-            timeout -k "$duration" "$duration" arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS "$@"
-        else
-            dlogc "arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS $*"
-            # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-            arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS "$@"
-        fi  
+        dlogc "arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS $*"
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+        arecord $SOF_ALSA_OPTS $SOF_ARECORD_OPTS "$@"
     else
         die "Unknown ALSA tool: ${SOF_ALSA_TOOL}"
     fi
 }
 
+# Get the ID of the first source of a given type, e.g. "Microphone" or "Audio codec". Print an empty line if ID not found.
+get_id_of_pipewire_source()
+{
+    # $ wpctl status returns list of all endpoints managed by wireplumber. We use grep to get only lines after "Sources".
+    # Then we filter by given sink/source type, which returns something like this: 
+    # │  *   48. sof-soundwire Microphone            [vol: 0.40]  (or without the * when it's not the current default)
+    # We filter out everything but ID, and only take the first line of the output (if there's more that one object of that type we ignore the rest)
+
+    local object_name="$1"
+    object_id=$(wpctl status | grep "Sources" -A 10 | awk -v name="$object_name" 'tolower($0) ~ tolower(name) { sub(/\*/,""); sub(/\./,"",$2); print $2; exit }')
+
+    # Check if object_id is a number
+    re='^[0-9]+$'
+    if [[ "$object_id" =~ $re ]] ; then
+        printf '%s' "$object_id"
+    fi
+
+}
+
 # Get the ID of the first sink/source of a given type, e.g. "Speaker" or "Headphones". Print an empty line if ID not found.
 get_id_of_pipewire_endpoint()
 {
@@ -1014,6 +1023,42 @@ get_id_of_pipewire_endpoint()
 
 }
 
+# Get pipewire sink name for given alsa pcm
+# Arguments: 1-alsa pcm, ex. hw:0,0
+set_default_pipewire_sink_for_alsa_pcm()
+{
+    card_id=$(echo "$1" | awk -F'[:,]' '{print $2}')
+    dev_id=$(echo "$1" | awk -F'[:,]' '{print $3}')
+    dlogi "card: $card_id, device: $dev_id"
+    
+    sink_name=$(pactl list sinks \
+        | grep -B 20 "alsa.device = \"$dev_id\"" \
+        | grep -B 16 "alsa.card = \"$card_id\"" \
+        | grep "Name: alsa_output" \
+        | cut -d' ' -f2-)
+
+    dlogi "Setting default sink set to $sink_name"
+    pactl set-default-sink "$sink_name"
+}
+
+# Get pipewire source name for given alsa pcm
+# Arguments: 1-alsa pcm, ex. hw:0,0
+set_default_pipewire_source_for_alsa_pcm()
+{
+    card_id=$(echo "$1" | awk -F'[:,]' '{print $2}')
+    dev_id=$(echo "$1" | awk -F'[:,]' '{print $3}')
+    dlogi "card: $card_id, device: $dev_id"
+    
+    sink_name=$(pactl list sources \
+        | grep -B 20 "alsa.device = \"$dev_id\"" \
+        | grep -B 16 "alsa.card = \"$card_id\"" \
+        | grep "Name: alsa_input" \
+        | cut -d' ' -f2-)
+
+    dlogi "Setting default source set to $sink_name"
+    pactl set-default-source "$sink_name"
+}
+
 die()
 {
     dloge "$@"
diff --git a/test-case/check-alsabat.sh b/test-case/check-alsabat.sh
index 644648ff..1caf6733 100755
--- a/test-case/check-alsabat.sh
+++ b/test-case/check-alsabat.sh
@@ -100,32 +100,103 @@ function __upload_wav_file
     done
 }
 
-# check the PCMs before alsabat test
-dlogi "check the PCMs before alsabat test"
-aplay   "-Dplug${pcm_p}" -d 1 /dev/zero -q || die "Failed to play on PCM: ${pcm_p}"
-arecord "-Dplug${pcm_c}" -d 1 /dev/null -q || die "Failed to capture on PCM: ${pcm_c}"
-
-# alsabat test
-# BT offload PCMs also support mono playback.
-dlogc "alsabat -P$pcm_p --standalone -n $frames -r $rate -c $channel_p -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
-alsabat "-P${pcm_p}" --standalone -n "${frames}" -c "${channel_p}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" & playPID=$!
-
-# playback may have low latency, add one second delay to aviod recording zero at beginning.
-sleep 1
-
-# Select the first card
-first_card_name=$(aplay -l | awk '/^card ([0-9]+)/ {print $3; exit}')
-# dump amixer contents always.
-# Good case amixer settings is for reference, bad case for debugging.
-amixer -c "${first_card_name}" contents > "$LOG_ROOT"/amixer_settings.txt
-
-# We use different USB sound cards in CI, part of them only support 1 channel for capture,
-# so make the channel as an option and config it in alsabat-playback.csv
-dlogc "alsabat -C$pcm_c -c $channel_c -r $rate -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
-alsabat "-C${pcm_c}" -c "${channel_c}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" || {
-        # upload failed wav file
-        __upload_wav_file
-        exit 1
+# Set default pipewire sink and source
+set_pcms_in_pipewire()
+{
+    set_default_pipewire_sink_for_alsa_pcm "$pcm_p"
+    set_default_pipewire_source_for_alsa_pcm "$pcm_c"
+}
+
+check_the_pcms()
+{
+    aplay   "-Dplug${pcm_p}" -d 1 /dev/zero -q || die "Failed to play on PCM: ${pcm_p}"
+    arecord "-Dplug${pcm_c}" -d 1 /dev/null -q || die "Failed to capture on PCM: ${pcm_c}"
+}
+
+check_the_pcms_with_pipewire()
+{
+    aplay   -D pipewire -d 1 /dev/zero -q || die "Failed to play on pipewire"
+    arecord -D pipewire -d 1 /dev/null -q || die "Failed to capture on pipewire"
+}
+
+run_test_on_pipewire()
+{
+    # Set correct sink and source in pipewire
+    set_pcms_in_pipewire
+
+    # check the PCMs before alsabat test
+    check_the_pcms_with_pipewire
+
+    # alsabat tests
+    dlogc "alsabat -P pipewire --standalone -n $frames -r $rate -c $channel_p -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
+    alsabat -P pipewire --standalone -n "${frames}" -c "${channel_p}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" & playPID=$!
+
+    dlogc "alsabat -C pipewire --standalone -n $frames -c $channel_p -r $rate -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
+    alsabat -C pipewire --standalone -n "${frames}" -c "${channel_p}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" || {
+            # upload failed wav file
+            __upload_wav_file
+            exit 1
+    }
+}
+
+run_test_on_alsa_direct_mode()
+{
+    # check the PCMs before alsabat test
+    check_the_pcms
+
+    # alsabat test
+    # BT offload PCMs also support mono playback.
+    dlogc "alsabat -P$pcm_p --standalone -n $frames -r $rate -c $channel_p -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
+    alsabat "-P${pcm_p}" --standalone -n "${frames}" -c "${channel_p}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" & playPID=$!
+
+    # playback may have low latency, add one second delay to aviod recording zero at beginning.
+    sleep 1
+
+    # Select the first card
+    first_card_name=$(aplay -l | awk '/^card ([0-9]+)/ {print $3; exit}')
+    # dump amixer contents always.
+    # Good case amixer settings is for reference, bad case for debugging.
+    amixer -c "${first_card_name}" contents > "$LOG_ROOT"/amixer_settings.txt
+
+    # We use different USB sound cards in CI, part of them only support 1 channel for capture,
+    # so make the channel as an option and config it in alsabat-playback.csv
+    dlogc "alsabat -C$pcm_c -c $channel_c -r $rate -f $format -F $frequency -k $sigmak"
+    alsabat "-C${pcm_c}" -c "${channel_c}" -r "${rate}" -f "${format}" -F "${frequency}" -k "${sigmak}" || {
+            # upload failed wav file
+            __upload_wav_file
+            exit 1
+    }
+
+    wait $playPID
+}
+
+main()
+{
+    start_test
+
+    if [ "$SOF_TEST_PIPEWIRE" == true ] && [[ "$TPLG" == *rt712* ]]; then
+        skip_test "Skipping: test not supported for RT712 configuration"
+    fi
+
+    if [ "$pcm_p" = "" ]||[ "$pcm_c" = "" ];
+    then
+        dloge "No playback or capture PCM is specified. Skip the alsabat test"
+        exit 2
+    fi
+
+    check_locale_for_alsabat
+
+    logger_disabled || func_lib_start_log_collect
+
+    set_alsa
+
+    if [ "$SOF_TEST_PIPEWIRE" == true ]; then
+        run_test_on_pipewire
+    else
+        run_test_on_alsa_direct_mode
+    fi
 }
 
-wait $playPID
+{
+    main "$@"; exit "$?"
+}
diff --git a/test-case/check-performance.sh b/test-case/check-performance.sh
index 157eed19..3638db99 100755
--- a/test-case/check-performance.sh
+++ b/test-case/check-performance.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ run_aplays()
         fi
         dlogi "Setting default sink to $sink_id: $sink_type"
         wpctl set-default "$sink_id"
-        aplay_opts -D pipewire /dev/zero -q &
+        aplay_opts -D pipewire /dev/zero -d "$duration" -q &
         aplay_num=$((aplay_num+1))
     done
 }
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ run_arecords()
         fi
         dlogi "Setting default source to $source_id: $source_type"
         wpctl set-default "$source_id"
-        arecord_opts -D pipewire /dev/null -q &
+        arecord_opts -D pipewire /dev/null -d "$duration" -q &
         arecord_num=$((arecord_num+1))
     done
 }