if you’ve been doing TDD or writing tests long enough, you’d immediately recognize the anti-pattern in one of them
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Discusses two different ways to write a test case and highlights an anti-pattern commonly recognized by experienced practitioners of test-driven development.

two ways to write this test case, which do you use?

Probably you should use the second one, because the first one will pass even if there is no exception happened