A system and method for masking the complexity of developing software for a heterogeneous target execution environment may be established by configuring an integrated development environment to perform certain masking mechanisms. For example, the integrated development environment used to develop a background process may be used to create a background process-file on the target execution environment. The integrated development environment may further be configured to synchronously connect with an agent on the target execution environment, allowing the agent to initiate the background process using the integrated development environment user credentials. Additionally, the integrated development environment may be configured to monitor completion of the background process execution on the target execution environment, and to return the output from the background process after completion to the integrated development environment user.