The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.169 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-07-06T12:21:24+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/119M
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[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM
 in this directory (C:\Users\Administrator). Please verify you invoked Maven fro
m the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProject
Exception

最近学习使用maven，然后在通过cmd命令“maven test E:mavenTest”，运行项目工程的时候碰过这个错误，看错误日志提示，我们知道“C:\Users\Administrator”这个路径下找不到pom.xml文件，可是我的工程不是在这个路径下并且我也是指定了工程路径了，为什么还是报错，所以我就尝试直接进入工程文件夹，执行mvn test，发现可以正常启动maven工程项目了，原来“mvn test”这个命令就是在当前文件夹下找pom.xml文件并执行