Notify-OSD notifications for systems with libnotify support (e. g. Ubuntu) on testsuite start and completion.
Run nosetests with the --with-notify or set the environment variable NOSE_WITH_NOTIFYPLUGIN flag. Enjoy.
Passing the --no-start-message flag skips the notification at the beginning of your test run. This is useful in case your test suite passes really quickly. Which it should.
Thanks to Victor Ng and nose-growl for the inspiration.