diff --git a/bin/wmagent-couchapp-init b/bin/wmagent-couchapp-init
index 7317588f3b..7184738462 100755
--- a/bin/wmagent-couchapp-init
+++ b/bin/wmagent-couchapp-init
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ wmagent-couchapp-init
 from __future__ import print_function, division
 
 from future import standard_library
+
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 
 import argparse
@@ -16,9 +17,7 @@ import tempfile
 import urllib
 
 from urllib.parse import urlsplit
-
 from couchapp.commands import push as couchapppush
-from couchapp.config import Config
 
 from WMCore.Configuration import loadConfigurationFile
 from WMCore.Lexicon import splitCouchServiceURL
@@ -45,14 +44,20 @@ def installCouchApp(couchUrl, couchDBName, couchAppName, basePath=None):
     Install the given couch app on the given server in the given database.  If
     the database already exists it will be deleted.
     """
+    # set of options required by the couchapp push command
+    # from collections import namedtuple
+    # couchOpts = namedtuple("opts", ["export", "output", "force", "no_atomic"])
+    # for attribute in ["export", "output", "force", "no_atomic"]:
+    #     setattr(couchOpts, attribute, False)
+    ### AMR debugging workqueue couchapps, remove it later ###
+    #couchOpts.export = True
+    #couchOpts.output = "/data/WorkQueue.json"
+    ##########################################################
     if not basePath:
         basePath = couchAppRoot(couchAppName)
     print("Installing %s into %s" % (couchAppName, urllib.unquote_plus(couchDBName)))
 
-    couchappConfig = Config()
-
-    couchapppush(couchappConfig, "%s/%s" % (basePath, couchAppName),
-                 "%s/%s" % (couchUrl, couchDBName))
+    couchapppush("%s/%s" % (basePath, couchAppName), "%s/%s" % (couchUrl, couchDBName))
     return
 
 
diff --git a/src/python/WMQuality/TestInitCouchApp.py b/src/python/WMQuality/TestInitCouchApp.py
index f04103d04a..ce3ce190ce 100644
--- a/src/python/WMQuality/TestInitCouchApp.py
+++ b/src/python/WMQuality/TestInitCouchApp.py
@@ -13,17 +13,18 @@
 
 from builtins import object
 from future import standard_library
+
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 
 import os
 import urllib.parse
 
 from couchapp.commands import push as couchapppush
-from couchapp.config import Config
 from WMCore.Database.CMSCouch import CouchServer
 
 from WMQuality.TestInit import TestInit
 
+
 class CouchAppTestHarness(object):
     """
     Test Harness for installing a couch database instance with several couchapps
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ class CouchAppTestHarness(object):
 
 
     """
-    def __init__(self, dbName, couchUrl = None):
+
+    def __init__(self, dbName, couchUrl=None):
         self.couchUrl = os.environ.get("COUCHURL", couchUrl)
         self.dbName = dbName
         if self.couchUrl == None:
@@ -40,13 +42,11 @@ def __init__(self, dbName, couchUrl = None):
         if self.couchUrl.endswith('/'):
             raise RuntimeError("COUCHURL env var shouldn't end with /")
         self.couchServer = CouchServer(self.couchUrl)
-        self.couchappConfig = Config()
-
 
     def create(self, dropExistingDb=True):
         """create couch db instance"""
-        #import pdb
-        #pdb.set_trace()
+        # import pdb
+        # pdb.set_trace()
         if self.dbName in self.couchServer.listDatabases():
             if not dropExistingDb:
                 return
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ def pushCouchapps(self, *couchappdirs):
         """
         push a list of couchapps to the database
         """
-        for couchappdir in  couchappdirs:
-            couchapppush(self.couchappConfig, couchappdir, "%s/%s" % (self.couchUrl, urllib.parse.quote_plus(self.dbName)))
+        for couchappdir in couchappdirs:
+            couchapppush(couchappdir, "%s/%s" % (self.couchUrl, urllib.parse.quote_plus(self.dbName)))
 
 
 class TestInitCouchApp(TestInit):
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ def setupCouch(self, dbName, *couchapps):
         self.couch.create(dropExistingDb=self.dropExistingDb)
         # just create the db is couchapps are not specified
         if len(couchapps) > 0:
-            self.couch.pushCouchapps(*[os.path.join(self.couchAppRoot(couchapp), couchapp) for couchapp in couchapps ])
-
+            self.couch.pushCouchapps(*[os.path.join(self.couchAppRoot(couchapp), couchapp) for couchapp in couchapps])
 
     couchUrl = property(lambda x: x.couch.couchUrl)
     couchDbName = property(lambda x: x.couch.dbName)
diff --git a/test/data/WMStats/generator.py b/test/data/WMStats/generator.py
index cf7048a776..ade9c9d379 100644
--- a/test/data/WMStats/generator.py
+++ b/test/data/WMStats/generator.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 
 from couchapp.commands import push as couchapppush
-from couchapp.config import Config
 
 from WMCore.Database.CMSCouch import CouchServer
 from WMCore.Lexicon import splitCouchServiceURL
@@ -39,11 +38,7 @@ def installCouchApp(couchUrl, couchDBName, couchAppName, basePath=None):
         basePath = couchAppRoot()
     print("Installing %s into %s" % (couchAppName, couchDBName))
 
-    couchServer = CouchServer(couchUrl)
-    couchappConfig = Config()
-
-    couchapppush(couchappConfig, "%s/%s" % (basePath, couchAppName),
-                 "%s/%s" % (couchUrl, couchDBName))
+    couchapppush("%s/%s" % (basePath, couchAppName), "%s/%s" % (couchUrl, couchDBName))
     return