Unknown lifecycle phase "build". You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format
<p>Team,</p>

<p>Getting the following error on my pom file.  Unknown lifecycle phase "build". You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format.  I went thru the URL provided but still getting the error. MVN version 3.2.1,Java version: 1.7.0_51 any help would be appreciated</p>

<p>POM looks like:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
&lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
&lt;groupId&gt;com.organization.dramer&lt;/groupId&gt;
&lt;artifactId&gt;sTest&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;name&gt;sTest&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;description&gt;test automation framework created using Java, testNG,
selenium&lt;/description&gt;


  &lt;properties&gt;
  &lt;suiteXmlFile&gt;src/main/resources/testng.xml&lt;/suiteXmlFile&gt;
  &lt;skipTests&gt;false&lt;/skipTests&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;

  &lt;dependencies&gt;
    &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugin-tools&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-plugin-annotations&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;3.2&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;

  &lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.testng&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;testng&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;6.8&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;

  &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.seleniumhq.selenium&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;selenium-firefox-driver&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.53.0&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;

    &lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.seleniumhq.selenium&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;selenium-chrome-driver&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;2.44.0&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;

    &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.seleniumhq.selenium&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;htmlunit-driver&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.20&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;  

    &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;net.sourceforge.jexcelapi&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;jxl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.6.12&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;

      &lt;/dependencies&gt;

  &lt;build&gt;

  &lt;plugins&gt;
    &lt;plugin&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.3.2&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;source&gt;1.6&lt;/source&gt;
            &lt;target&gt;1.6&lt;/target&gt;
        &lt;/configuration&gt;
    &lt;/plugin&gt;

    &lt;plugin&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-surefire-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.6&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;suiteXmlFiles&gt;
                &lt;suiteXmlFile&gt;${suiteXmlFile)&lt;/suiteXmlFile&gt;
            &lt;/suiteXmlFiles&gt;    
            &lt;testFailureIgnore&gt;true&lt;/testFailureIgnore&gt;
        &lt;/configuration&gt;
    &lt;/plugin&gt;
  &lt;/plugins&gt;




  &lt;/build&gt;




&lt;/project&gt;
</code></pre>