We discuss the problem of path feasibility for programs manipulating strings using a collection of standard string library
functions. We prove results on the complexity of this problem, including its undecidability in the general case and decidability
of some special cases. In the context of test-case generation, we are interested in an efficient finite model finding method
for string constraints. To this end we develop a two-tier finite model finding procedure. First, an integer abstraction of
string constraints are passed to an SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solver. The abstraction is either unsatisfiable,
or the solver produces a model that fixes lengths of enough strings to reduce the entire problem to be finite domain. The
resulting fixed-length string constraints are then solved in a second phase. We implemented the procedure in a symbolic execution
framework, report on the encouraging results and discuss directions for improving the method further.